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

George C. Wolfe

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" When I came to New York, I told everyone I was a writer/director, and they said, 'No.' There was a rule. You could be one or the other. They ordained me writer. But then I won the Obie for directing 'Spunk,' and the rules changed. "

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" In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other. "

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" The best of any artist is in their art. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "

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" 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! "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.' "

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" 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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" 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. "

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