John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright, an Oscar winning screenwriter, and a theatre and film director. Read full biography of John Patrick Shanley →
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.
It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.
'The Miracle Worker' is just such an incredibly powerful play on stage, and is so kinetic, and athletic.
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
Women consume, and they must be directed what to consume, or they may identify you as lunch.
Back when you were doing plays like 'The Miracle Worker,' you had 20, 25 people in the cast. When you go to make the film, that's not... →
I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or... →
I've done very well in the film business. Whenever I have wanted something, the film business has given it to me. I'm very fortunate. My big... →
Some actors are brilliant in David Mamet, but they would crash and burn in my plays and visa-versa. You either have my music in your body, or you... →
There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a... →
When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone, and he asked me to take him home. When an... →
John Patrick Shanley (born October 3, 1950) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright, an Oscar winning screenwriter, and a theatre and film director.