#playwright

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. ↗

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

#classes #classical #elizabethan #how #live

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#live #lives #occupied #playwright #stay

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

#drama #him #informing #meant #person

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#doughnut #hole #like #playwright #without

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#arts #been #every #film-makers #francisco

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#budding #detective #detective story #even #form

It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#blinds #deep #difficult #event #experience

I pray to be of service to the playwright, the audience, the other actors and my character. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#character #i #other #playwright #pray

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights. ↗

— Lusia Strus

#believe #characters #costume #else #few