If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera. Israel Horovitz More Quotes by Israel Horovitz More Quotes From Israel Horovitz I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals. Israel Horovitz paris play running There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self. Israel Horovitz punishment real self I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing. Israel Horovitz stories play writing If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times. Israel Horovitz appreciate preparation people I don't direct the plays of others. Israel Horovitz direct play The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times. Israel Horovitz holocaust has-beens stories Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time. Israel Horovitz irrelevant all-time theatre While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic. Israel Horovitz one-day trying laughing I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. Israel Horovitz play writing needs Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach. Israel Horovitz writing beach art Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place. Israel Horovitz dream writing character Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything. Israel Horovitz invention theater actors You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want. Israel Horovitz acceptance doe love-you I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons. Israel Horovitz drive car teacher school I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality. Israel Horovitz been always fighter personality You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down. Israel Horovitz yourself down you play I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. Israel Horovitz town jewish only up My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues. Israel Horovitz new like london new-york I've done nothing with my life but write plays. Israel Horovitz my-life nothing done life I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life. Israel Horovitz working-class memory response life
