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One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
— Tracy Letts
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
— Tracy Letts
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
— Tracy Letts
EAT THE FISH, BITCH!
— Tracy Letts
BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but ... BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.
— Tracy Letts
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
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The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
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I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.
— Tracy Letts
You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?
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Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
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She's the Indian who lives in my attic.
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I don't have a great face for camera.
— Tracy Letts
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
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If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.
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You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.
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BILL: Please, sweetheart, we need to know what went on here. JEAN: Nothing "went on." Can we just not make a federal case out of everything?
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In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
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You know, this country was always pretty much a whorehouse, but at least it used to have some promise. Now it's just a shithole.
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Time wounds all heals.
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Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just ... survive. Outlive me, please.
— Tracy Letts
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
— Tracy Letts
BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom.
VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision? — Tracy Letts
VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision? — Tracy Letts
A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.
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I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.
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We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.
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VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill.
BILL: Horseshit. — Tracy Letts
BILL: Horseshit. — Tracy Letts