Richard Greenberg
Playwright
1958-02-22
Quotes by Richard Greenberg
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The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!
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The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!
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I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.
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For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.
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I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
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When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.
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I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.
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