John Guare Quotes - Page 2

• 1975 is as much a historical document as 1803.

  John Guare

  Historical, Documents

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?

  John Guare

  Real, Believe, Artist

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

  John Guare

  Business, Catholic, Promise

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• The only riots were the people trying to get tickets.

  John Guare

  People, Trying, Tickets

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• The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.

  John Guare

  Past, Thinking, Today

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  John Guare

  Believe, Thinking, Working Together

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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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.

  John Guare

  Motivation, Play, Musical

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

  John Guare

  Book, Play, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm an American playwright. Tennessee Williams got in all our DNA.

  John Guare

  Dna, Tennessee, Playwright

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can't be a sort of pioneer.

  John Guare

  Pioneers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

  John Guare

  Roots, Where We Come

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg.

  John Guare

  Thinking, Playwright

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.

  John Guare

  Tennessee, Taught, Theater

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that some of these plays are lost in this new horror called development, which is a place for dramaturgs to say "let me tell you what your play means," and the life gets sucked out of a play.

  John Guare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  John Guare

  Play, Long, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

  John Guare

  Hate, Play, Example

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.

  John Guare

  Dog, Playwright

  Source: deadline.com

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• There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.

  John Guare

  Dna, Tennessee, Changed

  "John Guare: Strangers in the Dark". Interview with Tana Wojczuk, www.guernicamag.com. March 19, 2012.

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• And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Cities, Numbers

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• However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Believe, Cities

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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.

  John Guare

  Art, People, Doe

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• People go to see beautiful paintings to see how much they cost. Wow. The practical value is that it shows you what the human spirit can do.

  John Guare

  Beautiful, People, Cost

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• The Atlantic Ocean was something then.

  John Guare

  Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Nostalgia

  "Fictional character: Lou Pascal". "Atlantic City", 1980.

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• All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.

  John Guare

  Beautiful, Running, New York

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Cities

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