Playwriting Quotes
Playwriting Quote of the day
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Playwriting is an oral art; it's not an art of a writer expecting to be read but a writer expecting to be heard.
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
Playwriting is all about empathy, getting inside the head of someone who is not you, to think like they think without judging them.
Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.
I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
