[On shooting in London, 2004] In the United States things have changed a lot, and it`s hard to make good small films now. There was a time in the 1950s when I wanted to be a playwright, because until that time movies, which mostly came out of Hollywood, w...
Woody Allen
[On losing the role of Frankie, which had been written for her by playwright Terrence McNally, to Michelle Pfeiffer in the movie version of "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune"] "I thought it was wonderful to see a love story about people over forty,...
Kathy Bates
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh
One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays.
Vivien Leigh
Lane is a Tony-winning producer ( Thoroughly Modern Millie, La Cage aux Folles ) and part-time playwright. Based on the evidence here, Lane should stick to producing. He has attempted to write a romantic comedy/farce/backstage play. It fails as all threeâ...
William Stevenson
It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.
Peter Shaffer
If it`s stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it`s film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.
Brad Dourif
I was a writer. I just wasn`t a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I`d be a better actor than I would a playwright.
Liev Schreiber
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
Peter Shaffer
I flatter myself a terribly liberal New York playwright, but his prose floored me because it was so extreme, ... I found myself asking, `Wow, does this have any value? Does this merit a place on bookshelves?` And I thought, if he could unnerve me so compl...
Doug Wright
He was a giant figure in American theater. Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story.
Tony Kushner
[Though Wilson was the most notable playwright of his generation, he doesn`t seem to have influenced younger writers. He doesn`t have obvious imitators.] It would almost amount to arrogance to try to imitate him, ... His writing is so personal, with its m...
Daniel Sullivan
[On shooting in London, 2004] In the United States things have changed a lot, and it`s hard to make good small films now. There was a time in the 1950s when I wanted to be a playwright, because until that time movies, which mostly came out of Hollywood, w...
Woody Allen
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