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" Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity. "

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. "

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

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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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" 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 absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different. "

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" I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. "

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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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" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

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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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" I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. "

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" 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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" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "

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

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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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" 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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" I pride myself on being available to as many people's stories as I possibly can. "

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" Always, when I do a play, there's got to be an equation of risks and potential failure. When you're working on a new play, it's like, 'How the hell do I do this, and do we have the time?' All of these huge questions engage, hopefully, the smartest part of me. And then when you're doing a revival, I went, 'Well, somebody's already solved it.' "

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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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