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John Guare Inspirational Quotes (34)

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Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
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Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one.
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Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
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You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
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The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes I am all random”.
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People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.
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I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
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