In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy. Tony Kushner More Quotes by Tony Kushner More Quotes From Tony Kushner When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together. Tony Kushner playwritingpeople Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around. Tony Kushner theatercriticism So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing. Tony Kushner obvious-thingsforeverthinking If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie. Tony Kushner choiceslyingthinking I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me. Tony Kushner likesreligious I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die Tony Kushner angels-in-americabreakheart A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament. Tony Kushner lastsplaymean The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent anger - these are worthy of being called human. These are the Beautiful that an age produces. Tony Kushner agedreambeautiful The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original. Tony Kushner historicalfictionthinking I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning. Tony Kushner gone-awayjusticemorning Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable. Tony Kushner depressingimaginationthinking I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world. Tony Kushner without-youhappensworld You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go. Tony Kushner what-you-lovemy-friends What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient. Tony Kushner voiceheropeople I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort. Tony Kushner costrolesanimal Trying every day to tell the truth is hard. There are harder things, of course - arguably, living with lies and meaninglessness, living in despair is harder, but it's hardship disguised as luxury and easier perhaps to grow accustomed to, since truth is usually the enemy of custom. There are harder things than writing, being President Obama, for instance, and having to deal with House Republicans, or trying to fix the leak at the Fukushima reactor, these are harder, but writing is hard. Tony Kushner luxurywritinglying The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories. Tony Kushner nashvilleinfluencestories We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for. Tony Kushner progressrocksdesire That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales. Tony Kushner shapesdecisionlittles Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. Tony Kushner ridiculousfablesgay
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