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" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "

George C. Wolfe

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

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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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" Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season. "

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" Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them. "

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" I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional. "

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

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" Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.' "

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" 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. "

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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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" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "

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" Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself. "

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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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" If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian. "

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" To want to come to New York, you have to have a sense of wonder about the world and a foolish sense of worth about yourself. And I, too, had both of those things. "

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" One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room. "

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

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" If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. "

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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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" A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. "

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" 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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" I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness. "

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