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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 63 quotes by Tony Kushner Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner (born July 16, 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln, both critically acclaimed movies. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama... Read full biography of Tony Kushner → 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. 0 I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations. 0 As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people. 0 I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic. 0 There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility. 0 But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.'... → 0 I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely... → 0 Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It's difficult when you're used to owning the copyright and having a... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 4 5 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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63 quotes by Tony Kushner