Robert Brustein Quotes

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.

The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.