John Guare Quotes
Top 25 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Guare
John Guare Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.
I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy.
There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting:
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B.
Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B.
Knock Knock.
Enter Character B.
How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random.
People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.