Tony Kushner Quotes

(And as for the) catastrophe ... The only good thing for me, I think, is that I have a new play that was already finished before this Broadway production happened. It goes into production in June. And that`s good because I haven`t been able to write anything while this was going on.

The attack on `Munich` was not coordinated but it amounted to a real campaign to have a lot of people not see the film and it got mixed up with Oscar issues.

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What astonishes me about the response to `Munich` is this angry rejection of the idea that it makes any difference to know what motivates people to do bad things, that you don`t need to know why. It is like saying that real men shoot first and ask questions later like in `Dirty Harry` movies.

Both shows are a testament to the creative power of human beings,

He was a giant figure in American theater. Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story.

He was a giant figure in American theater,

(Some of his characters were underdeveloped, to the extent that their speeches could be (and sometimes were, in Wilson`s habitual frequent rewrites) interchanged. His dramatic structures and even his use of the musical powers of African American idioms were fairly old-fashioned compared with the exciting adventurousness of Suzan-Lori Parks. But even his traditionalism could be seen as a source of strength.) He was writing in the grand tradition of Eugene O`Neill and Arthur Miller, ... the politically engaged, direct, social-realist drama. He was reclaiming ground for the theater that most people thought had been abandoned.