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" Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them. "

George C. Wolfe

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" I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. "

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" There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.' "

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" Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating. "

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" The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what it is.' That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating. "

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" Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form. "

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" One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room. "

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" Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. "

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" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "

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" I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated. "

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" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "

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" AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath. "

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" I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise. "

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" The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. "

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" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "

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" Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.' "

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" There's no place more theatrical than history. "

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" I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other. "

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" If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian. "

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" The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show. "

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" Theater, at the end of the day, is about ideas. It's about very large ideas. And if the play is beautifully written or smartly written and has incredible characters you follow on the journey, you take home these larger ideas. Whether it's 'Angels in America' or 'Lucky Guy' or 'Normal Heart,' you follow this moment-to-moment journey as an audience. "

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" To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. "

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" I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can. "

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" I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter. "

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" Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. "

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" When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed. "

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" When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it. "

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" I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. "

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" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "

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