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Richard Greenberg Quotes

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

Richard Greenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: american
Birth: February 22, 1958

Topics

Time Writing Expectation Never Been

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

Work Today People You Go Say

Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.

Jean-Marc Vallee

Great Light Simple People Hair Try

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

Funny Friend Think She Writer He

Make life exciting, and you live longer.

Life Live You Exciting Make Longer

It's much easier to get your material out to the public now than it was in 1988, when you basically had to get onto cable to have a joke heard across the country. Now all you need is an iPhone, and you can get your joke heard across the country.

Robert Ben Garant

You Country Now iPhone Need Out

It's an amazing feeling when I have a customer who tries a leg on and is able to go snowboarding for the first time.

Time Amazing Customer Feeling Go

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

Government Society Illusion Office

The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it's hard to find substantial journalism there.

Reading You Journalism Find Hard

By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of slippers than one of the satin corsets the Bunnies used to wear.

Life Time End Girlfriend Buying Far

I just find it funny and terrible: someone being very rude and overbearing over somebody who doesn't know how to deal with it. Maybe it's because I've experienced that sort of thing and I don't know how to say, 'You can't do that. You can't say that to me.'

Funny Me Someone You Find Know

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

Best Man Yourself Poetry Why Who

I think 'Chef' is about somebody who's in the middle of his life, and he's kind of lost his passion and his voice, so he seeks out some refinement and redemption.

Life Passion Chef Voice Think Lost

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