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As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.
What politicians want and what creative writers want will always be profoundly different, because I'm afraid all politicians, of whatever hue, want propaganda, and writers want the truth, and they're not compatible.
A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.
The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.
Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.
I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.
[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.
In oratory the will must predominate.
[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.