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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
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I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
- Tony Kushner
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#Know
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So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
- Tony Kushner
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#Film
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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
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#Patience
#Politics
#Revolution
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
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#Great
#Just
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#Situation
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
- Tony Kushner
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#Logic
#Love Is
#Love
#Me
I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
- Tony Kushner
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#Live
#New
#Time
#World
There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.
- Tony Kushner
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#Illusion
#Play
#Theater
#Way
When I teach writing, I always tell my students you should assume that the audience you're writing for is smarter than you. You can't write if you don't think they're on your side, because then you start to yell at them or preach down to them.
- Tony Kushner
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#Down
#Start
#Tell
There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
- Tony Kushner
#Fundamental
#Kind
#Playwriting
#Strength
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
- Tony Kushner
#Human
#Love Is
#Love
#People
#Way
I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
- Tony Kushner
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#Failure
#Fear
#Find
#Hard
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
- Tony Kushner
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#Find
#Furthest
#Possible
#Work
The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.
- Tony Kushner
#Anything
#Brother
#Good
#Nation
#Son
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
#Accomplishment
#Beauty
#Better
#Way
#Who
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
- Tony Kushner
#Artist
#Life
#Relationship
#Strange
As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.
- Tony Kushner
#Art
#Hate
#Movies
#Practice
#Stone
I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.
- Tony Kushner
#Feel
#I Feel
#Kind
#Person
#Political
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.
- Tony Kushner
#Beyond
#Historical
#History
#Thinking
I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.
- Tony Kushner
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#Best
#Deadline
#Panic
#Work
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