Eric Bogosian

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#angst #idealism #injustice #status-quo #youth

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#canceled #getting #gigs #having #long

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#build #designers #director #house #i

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#does #i #i do #know #underground

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#best #could #doing #i #idealistic

I love playing other people's work. I love acting. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#i #i love #love #other #people

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#because #complex #deal #get #i

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#got #high #high school #i #new

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#between #cult #cult thing #definitely #film

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#ensemble #hard #like