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" If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera. "
Israel Horovitz
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Will
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" I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing. "
Israel Horovitz
Enjoy
Drive
Enough
" France is very welcoming to foreign writers. "
Israel Horovitz
Welcoming
Very
France
" I parle Francais like a Spanish cow. "
Israel Horovitz
Spanish
Cow
Like
" Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. "
Israel Horovitz
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Writing
Theatre
" I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. "
Israel Horovitz
Play
Write
Felt
" Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre. "
Israel Horovitz
Great
Love
Time
" I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. "
Israel Horovitz
Life
Memory
Working-Class
" I've done nothing with my life but write plays. "
Israel Horovitz
Life
Nothing
Write
" You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down. "
Israel Horovitz
You
Need
Play
" Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place. "
Israel Horovitz
Town
Tourist
Some
" Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time. "
Israel Horovitz
Irrelevant
Time
Theatre
" My dream is to have a small company in France. "
Israel Horovitz
Company
Dream
France
" I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. "
Israel Horovitz
Jewish
Town
Only
" Radical politics tend to be simple minded. "
Israel Horovitz
Politics
Radical
Simple
" I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals. "
Israel Horovitz
Here
Coming
Work
" I don't direct the plays of others. "
Israel Horovitz
Plays
Direct
Others
" It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work. "
Israel Horovitz
Great
Winter
Work
" I was not to the manor born. "
Israel Horovitz
Born
" It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it. "
Israel Horovitz
Good
Old Age
Age
" The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times. "
Israel Horovitz
Been
Holocaust
Times
" I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe. "
Israel Horovitz
Dozens
Languages
Around
" I am an internationally produced playwright. "
Israel Horovitz
Internationally
I Am
Am
" I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing. "
Israel Horovitz
Irony
Awards
Writing
" I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons. "
Israel Horovitz
Car
Drive
Teacher
" I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. "
Israel Horovitz
Know
Write
Way
" People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah. "
Israel Horovitz
Old
Old Man
Name
" What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays. "
Israel Horovitz
Center
New
Plays
" My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues. "
Israel Horovitz
New York
New
Like
" L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute. "
Israel Horovitz
Doing
You
Cute