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" I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other. "
George C. Wolfe
Way
Tried
Always
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country. "
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Boat
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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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Vulnerability
Want
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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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People
Something
" Everybody wants to be remembered for the best of who they are. "
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Everybody
Best
" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "
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Why
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" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "
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Like
Create
America
" Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. "
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Social
Black
Achieve
" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "
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You
Way
Success
" 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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Journey
You
Back
" 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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Time
Language
Performance
" 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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Go
American
You
" I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. "
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People
Being
Stories
" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "
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Responsibility
Suffering
Other
" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "
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Time
Memories
My Time
" Our lives are connected in ways we can't imagine. They're connected even before we know they're connected. "
George C. Wolfe
Before
Connected
Even
" When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. "
George C. Wolfe
Myself
Most
Love
" You adjust what you do depending on the actor. You evolve a vocabulary and a way of language and talking with each actor. "
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Language
Each
You
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Artist
Always
Happen
" In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories. "
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Early
Father
You
" Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole. "
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Little
Become
Events
" 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
" Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. "
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Unique
Vision
Artist
" 'Jelly,' more than any black musical before it, celebrated the majesty, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same qualities in their own lives. "
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Own
Same
Black
" 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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Working
Same
Show
" 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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Rage
Write
New York
" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "
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Hamlet
Mess
Create
" 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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See
Working
Will