Edward Albee Quotes - Page 8

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• When you're dealing with a symbol in a realistic play, it is also a realistic fact. You must expect the audience's mind to work on both levels, symbolically and realistically. But we're trained so much in pure, realistic theater that it's difficult for us to handle things on two levels at the same time.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Two, Mind

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.58, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well enough written, should not be knocked down because of its approach to its subject.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Men, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If the work of art is good enough, it must not be criticized for its theme. I don't think it can be argued.

  Edward Albee

  Art, Thinking, Good Enough

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.60, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Thinking, People

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. September 2013.

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• As a fairly objective judgment, I do think that my plays as they come out are better than most other things that are put on the same year. But that doesn't make them very good necessarily.

  Edward Albee

  Thinking, Years, Play

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.56, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Play, Knowing

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.61, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you want a commercial success - it's the confusion of commerce with art. A successful play is not considered to be the best written. It is the one that sells the most tickets. Those standards are destructive [to theatre].

  Edward Albee

  Art, Successful, Play

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. September 2013.

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• There may be lots of questions that anybody - an actor or a director or anybody - can ask about a character in a play of mine that are not answered in the play, but if it's a question that I don't think is relevant, I don't bother about it. There's no reason to ask it.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Thinking, Play

  The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. September 12, 2013.

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• Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.

  Edward Albee

  Theatre, Want, Able

  Source: www.believermag.com

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