American - Playwright | January 2, 1949 -
Laughter can bring a new perspective.
Christopher Durang
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Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.
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My biggest problem with organized religion is that God has been imagined as a human being with emotions. I feel if you let go of that, then it's possible to see God as a force, to connect to him or her spiritually.
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I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
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My parents didn't really know one another.
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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.
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When my parents separated, I was very grateful.
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I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre.
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Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
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On the one hand, I'm grateful to be hired and thrilled to be paid.
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Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.
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I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
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