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I think all creative people are operating from the fear that, of the best of what they did, will anybody remember it? Will anybody tell stories about them? Will anybody keep those pictures on the mantle long after they are gone? It's why people write stories. It's peoples' grave markers.
- George C. Wolfe
#Best
#Fear
#Long
#People
#Remember
Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!
- George C. Wolfe
#Anytime
#Art
#Create
#Mean
#Mess
I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.
- George C. Wolfe
#Finish
#Love
#Project
#Something
#Want
With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.
- George C. Wolfe
#Close
#Relationships
#Theater
#Working
If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian.
- George C. Wolfe
#Been
#Historian
#Stories
Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.
- George C. Wolfe
#Confidence
#Journey
#Worry
#Yourself
All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.
- George C. Wolfe
#Artist
#Attractive
#Just
#Matter
#Smart
Every single wave, when I was overwhelmed and poor and struggling in New York, there were these extraordinary people in New York who said, 'Come this way.'
- George C. Wolfe
#New
#Overwhelmed
#People
#Poor
#Way
There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.'
- George C. Wolfe
#Affection
#Humor
#Out
#Real
#Unexpected
Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.
- George C. Wolfe
#Failure
#Lose
#Success Is
#Success
#Way
At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences.
- George C. Wolfe
#Day
#Doing
#History
#Love
#Together
I came to New York to write and direct, and when I got here, a lot of my rage came out.
- George C. Wolfe
#Here
#I Came
#Lot
#New
#Rage
When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.
- George C. Wolfe
#First
#Heart
#Important
#Normal
#Urgency
My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new.
- George C. Wolfe
#Live
#New
#Not Knowing
#Project
#Time
Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push back, when they breathe, when they surrender.
- George C. Wolfe
#Audience
#Back
#Control
#Journey
#Push
I love working with a set designer because, in many respects, you meet the set designer before you meet the actors. So it's a chance for me as a director to figure out what I'm thinking and to explore how the space is going to actually be activated.
- George C. Wolfe
#Chance
#Love
#Me
#Space
#Thinking
The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
- George C. Wolfe
#Black And White
#Black
#White
#World
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