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 More Quotes by John Guare More Quotes From John Guare It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday. John Guare hope yesterday littles Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: John Guare perfect character long I read somewhere that everybody on this planet is separated by only six other people. Six degrees of separation between us and everyone else on this planet. The President of the United States, a gondolier in Venice, just fill in the names. I find it extremely comforting that we're so close. I also find it like Chinese water torture, that we're so close because you have to find the right six people to make the right connection... I am bound, you are bound, to everyone on this planet by a trail of six people. John Guare venice names people Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed. John Guare playwright dog The great risk is always saying, "how will I communicate what I'm trying to get across to a room full of strangers sitting in the dark watching a stage?" John Guare risk dark trying How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”. John Guare six-degrees-of-separation brushes life-is You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am." John Guare details make-sense book 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 example play I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you. John Guare crime business people I wanted to be a Bride of Christ but I guess now I'm a young divorcee. John Guare brides young christ What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do John Guare eye heart two There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. John Guare perfect play sometimes You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. John Guare twenties writing years You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished. John Guare buttons play writing I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create. John Guare risk thinking 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 Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. John Guare humiliation comedy tragedy Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York. John Guare cities new-york people The only riots were the people trying to get tickets. John Guare tickets trying people I'm sure there are some good dramaturgs but I've never worked with one. John Guare
