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" I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different. "
George C. Wolfe
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" I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me. "
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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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" 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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" To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things. "
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" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "
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" Racists are deficient as human beings. "
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" The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived. "
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" I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "
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" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "
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" I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.' "
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" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "
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" There's no place more theatrical than history. "
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" I personally am a very big fan of 'Romeo + Juliet.' It had a visceral power to it that I thought was just exhilarating. It was a very arresting and very disturbing and deeply compelling version of the play. "
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" I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. "
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" The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it. "
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" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "
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" Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. "
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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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" One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking but also to expose to them whatever box they've placed their characters in - to blow up that box so the journey can begin. "
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" I think there's an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that's very suited to directing. I like being in the room with actors; I love creating a safe space and a chaotic space for the discovery to take place. I love creating a sense of community. "
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