George C. Wolfe Quotes

American - Playwright | September 23, 1954 -

The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show.

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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.

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I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

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It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.

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I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness.

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I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.

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I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

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Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

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Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.

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I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

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Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

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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.

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