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" I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived. "
George C. Wolfe
Broadway
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Something
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" A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" There's no place more theatrical than history. "
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" When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise. "
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" When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important. "
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" 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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" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "
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" I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. "
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" It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional. "
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" My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new. "
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" Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "
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" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "
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" I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. "
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" A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence. "
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