American - Playwright | March 31, 1939 -
I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.
Israel Horovitz
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You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
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I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
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My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
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I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
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Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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I am an internationally produced playwright.
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