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I imagine as an axiom you could say that the better the play, the less creativity the director need exert.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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The only time I'll get good reviews is if I kill myself.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I've been influenced by every single play I've ever experienced.
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One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not to let the distortions occur.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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True, I don't begin with an idea for a play - a thesis, in other words, to construct the play around. But I know a good deal about the nature of the characters. I know a great deal about their environment. And I more or less know what is going to happen in the play.
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Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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The ultimate judgment of a work of art, whether it be a masterpiece or a lesser event, must be solely in terms of its artistic success and not on Freudian guesswork.
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I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.
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That's the happiest moment. When it's all done. When we stop. When we can stop.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
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I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people.
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