“All playwrights should be dead for three hundred years.”
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“A playwright . . . is . . . the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's gre”
Arthur Miller
“When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.”
Robert Brustein
“I'm a playwright and a novelist and a journalist. It's a weird Salinger-Mailer-Miller combination. When the series starts, he--like a lot of liberal New Yorkers--are starting to realize something is very wrong in the gay community. My investigation into what becomes called AIDS is going to be a big part of the show.”
Bill Pullman
“It's really important that those two (Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights) are both under the same umbrella,”
Oskar Eustis
“It's really important that those two [Shakespeare and contemporary playwrights] are both under the same umbrella, ... By putting Shakespeare there, you are holding him up as a model of how big a playwright's ambitions can be.”
“[On the other hand, Lions says, big names can be a boon to playwrights as well as producers. Broadway] has lost a lot of talented writers to Hollywood, ... to take a chance on theater. That's how it's done in London. In an ideal world, young writers could move back and forth between New York and Los Angeles.”
Julia Roberts
