As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction.
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it.
I was trained as a straight dramatist.
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist. . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
. . . the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
As a dramatist, I don't have politics.
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there.
I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.
