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" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "

George C. Wolfe

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

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" I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. "

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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'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "

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" Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing. "

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" Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. "

George C. Wolfe

" I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. "

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" When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free. "

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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. "

George C. Wolfe

" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "

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" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

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" It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional. "

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" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "

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" I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I was always very fascinated with the people who were on 'What's My Line?' and I always had an incredible obsession with the city. "

George C. Wolfe

" 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. "

George C. Wolfe

" With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. "

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" I really don't find revivals very interesting because I like new work a lot. I feel like if you're going to pay me, then let me do what I do and let me try to solve some problems. Let me try to make something fly. Why would I do something that everybody has already done the hard work on? But that's me. Tons of people do revivals really well. "

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" Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself. "

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

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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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" You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up. "

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

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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. "

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