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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. "

George C. Wolfe

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" Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving. "

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

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

" You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. "

" 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. "

" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

" Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender. "

" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "

" 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. "

" I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless. "

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

" I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted. "

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

" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "

" There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.' "

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

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

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

" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "

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

" 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

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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. "

" The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster. "

" I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision. "

" When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. "