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" I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. "
George C. Wolfe
Matter
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" 'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives. "
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Own
Same
Black
" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "
George C. Wolfe
Feel
Bite
Edgy
" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "
George C. Wolfe
Little
Become
Events
" I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers. "
George C. Wolfe
Creative
Fear
Best
" When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it. "
George C. Wolfe
Remember
Got
How
" Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season. "
George C. Wolfe
Through
Year
Season
" You can go see ballet in its purity; you can go to a recital to hear music by itself. But what the American musical does so thrillingly is bastardize these forms into something that is exhilarating and compelling and deeply moving. "
George C. Wolfe
Go
American
You
" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "
George C. Wolfe
Heart
You
Comedy
" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "
George C. Wolfe
Me
Artist
Maturity
" When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys. "
George C. Wolfe
Noise
Dancing
Black
" A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. "
George C. Wolfe
Vulnerability
Want
Work
" I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "
George C. Wolfe
Broadway
People
Something
" All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is. "
George C. Wolfe
Artist
Always
Happen
" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "
George C. Wolfe
Like
Create
America
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
You
Worst
Person
" When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. "
George C. Wolfe
Myself
Most
Love
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Wonder
You
World
" I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from. "
George C. Wolfe
Out
Come
Desire
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Yourself
Journey
Confidence
" 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.' "
George C. Wolfe
See
Working
Will
" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "
George C. Wolfe
Private
Theater
Very
" There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell! "
George C. Wolfe
I Am
People
You
" You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. "
George C. Wolfe
Language
Each
You
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Safe
Going
People
" I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. "
George C. Wolfe
More
Than
Am
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Problems
Hard Work
Fly
" Racists are deficient as human beings. "
George C. Wolfe
Human
Human Beings
Racists
" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "
George C. Wolfe
First
Museum
Play
" There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.' "
George C. Wolfe
Pride
Broadway
Ends
" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "
George C. Wolfe
Unique
Vision
Artist