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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...
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I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more... →

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I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure... →

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One of the things I learned in 'Slavs!' is that it's much easier to talk about being gay than it is to talk about being a socialist.... →

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And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats... →

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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... →

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I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's... →

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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... →

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If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go... →

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My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the... →

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The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you... →

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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... →

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