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" When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important. "

George C. Wolfe

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" I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can. "

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" I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless. "

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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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" Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess! "

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

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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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" 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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" Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess. "

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" 1985 - That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. "

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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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" My first play, 'The Colored Museum,' was done in '86 at the Public Theater. "

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" I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter. "

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" With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater. "

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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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" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "

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

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" I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful. "

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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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" It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda. "

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" I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me. "

George C. Wolfe

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

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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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" Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals. "

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