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Israel Horovitz Biography

Israel Horovitz (born March 31, 1939) is an American playwright, director, actor and co-founded of the Gloucester Stage Company in 1979. He served as artistic director until 2006 and later served on the board, ex officio and as artistic director emeritus until his resignation in November 2017 after The New York Times reported allegations of sexual misconduct.

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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

Enjoy, Play, Stories, Story, Writing

There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

Becoming, Frightened, Punishment, Real, Self

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

Appreciate, Explain, People, Preparation, Times

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

Art, Beach, Garage, Safe, Theatre, Writing

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

All Time, Irrelevant, Maybe, Theatre, Time

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

Actors, Cheaply, Invention, Knows, Theater, Worked

I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

Writing, Play, Needs, Felt, Write

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

Has Beens, Holocaust, Retold, Stories, Story, Told

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

Love You, Acceptance, Doe, Sort, Choose, Loves

Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.

Dream, Character, Writing, Plays, Like, Question

While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

Competitiveness, Different, Laughing, Together, Totally, Trying

I don't direct the plays of others.

Direct, Play, Plays

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Paris, Play, Plays, Running, Runs, Several