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" 'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever. "
George C. Wolfe
Heart
You
Comedy
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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. "
George C. Wolfe
Hope
Rules
Know
" A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence. "
George C. Wolfe
Modernism
Lot
Romance
" When 'Jelly's' went out on tour, no one really wanted it. It was undersold. And I knew if I gave 'Noise' to someone else, they would sell it as 'Stomp' with little dancing black boys. "
George C. Wolfe
Noise
Dancing
Black
" A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work. "
George C. Wolfe
Vulnerability
Want
Work
" Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way. "
George C. Wolfe
You
Way
Success
" 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.' "
George C. Wolfe
See
Working
Will
" When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important. "
George C. Wolfe
Normal
Important
Sense
" The Public Theater requires one to be very public, and writing requires one to be very private. "
George C. Wolfe
Private
Theater
Very
" Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here. "
George C. Wolfe
Theater
Why
Stories
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Chance
You
Me
" I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out. "
George C. Wolfe
Rage
Write
New York
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Creative
Fear
Best
" 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
" 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.' "
George C. Wolfe
Way
New York
Said
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Song
Heart
Helicopter
" If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. "
George C. Wolfe
Theatre
Love
Experience
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Early
Father
You
" I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise. "
George C. Wolfe
Me
Generosity
Time
" If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. "
George C. Wolfe
Commitment
Passion
Room
" Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon. "
George C. Wolfe
Point
Something
Another
" The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy. "
George C. Wolfe
Musical
Only
Must
" Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form. "
George C. Wolfe
Spring
Things
Create
" There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.' "
George C. Wolfe
Unexpected
Affection
Humor
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Personality
Community
Love
" I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America. "
George C. Wolfe
Like
Create
America
" It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional. "
George C. Wolfe
Tough
Edgy
Emotional
" On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up. "
George C. Wolfe
You
Show
Sometimes
" A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility. "
George C. Wolfe
Truth
Yourself
Time
" 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. "
George C. Wolfe
Community
Feel
Myself
" I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility. "
George C. Wolfe
Responsibility
Suffering
Other