You could argue that Barack Obama faced in '08 a situation as bad as any president since the Great Depression. What Obama inherited from the Bush administration, we all remember, was just an absolute global catastrophe. Tony Kushner More Quotes by Tony Kushner More Quotes From Tony Kushner As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. Tony Kushner wells actors people In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead. Tony Kushner progress dream world People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it. Tony Kushner fun people art The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. Tony Kushner spring two people Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work. Tony Kushner torture back-to-work writing Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone...Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way. Tony Kushner naked wind people I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. Tony Kushner waking-life theatre ideas It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do. Tony Kushner hard wisdom I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate. Tony Kushner debate believe thinking Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? Tony Kushner ineptitude accomplishment artist A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been. Tony Kushner should-have play might Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood. Tony Kushner love-is lying blood It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet. Tony Kushner angels-in-america easy justice Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions. Tony Kushner ecology delicate delusion The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches. Tony Kushner possibility artist Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. Tony Kushner revolution inspiration art I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history. Tony Kushner historical writing character I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something. Tony Kushner crazy hate country Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way. Tony Kushner theatre literature america One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are. Tony Kushner optimism kind looks
