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

George C. Wolfe

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

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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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" There's no place more theatrical than history. "

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" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "

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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 Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. "

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

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" The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it. "

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" When you're writing, in theory, everybody is serving you. When you're directing, you're serving everybody - in the guise of acting like everybody's serving you. But you're really serving the materials. You're serving the actors. You're in charge, but it's not free. "

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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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" '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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" Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. "

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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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" The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands. "

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" Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art form, really, at its best. At different times, I've tried to push against it as much as I possibly could, but ultimately, it is a folk-art form. "

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

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" Racists are deficient as human beings. "

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