Dramatist Quotes

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I`m a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.

I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker. I`m interested in alternative points of view. I think ultimately the problems of the planet are universal and that nationalism is a very destructive force. I also like anarchy in films. My heroes were Buñuel and Godard. Breathless was one of the first pictures I really remember being marked by, because of the speed and energy. They say I`m unsubtle. But we need above all, a theatre that wakes us up: nerves and heart.

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It`s my responsibility to find the research. It`s my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

I have this theory that these roles, the really great roles - there are elements of them in all of us. And that is part of the greatness of this dramatist, that he taps into something which is entirely human. You feel him reaching out his hand and saying to you as an actor, `Come on, it`s easier than you think.`

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

It`s insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

Inevitably, a dramatist writes one play, his director interprets another, the actors perform a third and the public sees a fourth and an altogether different one.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

The cat is above all things, a dramatist.