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Tracy Letts quotes: By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous.

By night within that ancient house Immense, black, damned, anonymous.

Tracy Letts quotes: One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

Tracy Letts quotes: The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.

Tracy Letts quotes: If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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 quotes: EAT THE FISH, BITCH!

EAT THE FISH, BITCH!

Tracy Letts quotes: BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but ... BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.

BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but ... BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.

Tracy Letts quotes: We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy Letts quotes: I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.

Tracy Letts quotes: You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?

You ever hear of Killer Joe Cooper?

Tracy Letts quotes: Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Tracy Letts quotes: Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.

Thank God we can't see the future, we'd never get out of bed.

Tracy Letts quotes: She's the Indian who lives in my attic.

She's the Indian who lives in my attic.

Tracy Letts quotes: I don't have a great face for camera.

I don't have a great face for camera.

Tracy Letts quotes: When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

Tracy Letts quotes: If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy Letts quotes: 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?

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?

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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.

Tracy Letts quotes: Time wounds all heals.

Time wounds all heals.

Tracy Letts quotes: 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.

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 quotes: My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

Tracy Letts quotes: I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.

Tracy Letts quotes: BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom.VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?

BARBARA: They're called Native Americans now, Mom.
VIOLET: Who calls them that? Who makes that decision?

Tracy Letts quotes: A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Tracy Letts quotes: I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Tracy Letts quotes: We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.

We covered this around Year Three, Bill: that you're the Master of Space and Time and I'm a spastic Pomeranian.

Tracy Letts quotes: VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill.BILL: Horseshit.

VIOLET: Oh, horseshit, horeshit, let's all say horseshit. Say horseshit, Bill.
BILL: Horseshit.

Tracy Letts quotes: I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.

Tracy Letts quotes: Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.