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" I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. "
George C. Wolfe
People
Being
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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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" 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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Time
People
Me
" 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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Early
Energy
" I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. "
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Matter
People
Subjects
" 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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Way
New York
Said
" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "
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Private
Theater
Very
" I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy. "
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Community
Feel
Myself
" 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
" To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. "
George C. Wolfe
American
Boat
Country
" A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility. "
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Truth
Yourself
Time
" 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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Play
Thought
Just
" 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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Try
Box
Journey
" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "
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Theater
Why
Stories
" 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
" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "
George C. Wolfe
Feel
Bite
Edgy
" At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences. "
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Day
History
Together
" 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
Always
City
New York
" AIDS is a shared truth - it's not selective in its wrath. "
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Shared
Wrath
AIDS
" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "
George C. Wolfe
Responsibility
Suffering
Other
" If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. "
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Commitment
Passion
Room
" A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. "
George C. Wolfe
Vulnerability
Want
Work
" 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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America
Journey
End
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Song
Heart
Helicopter
" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "
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Heart
You
Comedy
" 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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Safe
Going
People
" 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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Problems
Hard Work
Fly
" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "
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Hamlet
Mess
Create
" The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. "
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Black And White
White
Black
" Racists are deficient as human beings. "
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Human
Human Beings
Racists
" 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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Challenges
Living
Humanity