Annie Baker Quotes
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.
I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.
I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.
I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.
Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.
I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
This isn’t like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like — feed ourselves with.
