theatrical creation Quotes

I suppose, writing a play is finding out what the play is.

I have walked many times around the world and each time it's different from the last one. It feels a little bit like I am a theatrical director, creating a theatre in space. It's really a theater in the sky. But of course the World Trade Center is certainly the most well-known of my productions.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

What I have done in 'Company' can't be defined.

I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

Ideas emerge from plays, not the other way around.

People probably have different philosophies about this, but I think that when you're first shaping the play and trying to find a character, the initial actors that develop it end up imprinting on it - you hear their voices; you hear their rhythms. You can't help but to begin to write toward them during the rehearsal process.

Being an actor/ writer is a responsibility and a burden and a gift. The responsibility to me is that you can't just wait to be cast into something and then you create the role. You almost have a voice inside of you telling you what you might want to play and be able to play. It's hard, but once that thing comes out of the printer and you hold those warm pages to your cheek it's great. It's a huge sense of accomplishment.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.