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Tony Kushner Quotes: "People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it."

People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does."

I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think anybody does.




Tony Kushner Quotes: "The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs."

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead."

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.




Tony Kushner Quotes: "I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations."

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate."

The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work."

Torture yourself about your failures. And then get back to work.




Tony Kushner Quotes: "There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility."

There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?"

Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?



Tony Kushner Quotes: "A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been."

A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet."

It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.




Tony Kushner Quotes: "Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood."

Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do."

We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions."

Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution."

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 Quotes: "I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history."

I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are."

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "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 than film, is a place of public debate."

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 than film, is a place of public debate.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches."

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do."

It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it."

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament."

A play is never finished. You'll find out how much I mean that when you read my Last Will and Testament.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me."

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die"

I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die



Tony Kushner Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with"

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing."

I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around."

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'"

I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic."

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Real love isn't ever ambivalent."

Real love isn't ever ambivalent.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work."

The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies."

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies."

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life."

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library."

Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in."

One of the things I love about my job as a playwright or as a screenwriter is that I get to do a lot of research and a lot of thinking and taking a lot of notes before I turn it in.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "The body is the garden of the soul."

The body is the garden of the soul.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater."

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me."

The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort."

I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for."

We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy."

In some ways [the Internet]'s definitely an enemy.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications."

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents."

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work."

Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.



Tony Kushner Quotes: "It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln."

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.