"People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it."
-Tony Kushner
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"There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.“
-Tony Kushner
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"In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications."
-Tony Kushner
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"The kind of theater that I do is sort of 'narrative realism,' which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori's plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist."
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"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."
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"You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do."
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"Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution."
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