Tony Kushner Quotes
You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and, in modern drama, Larry Kramer's 'The Normal Heart.'
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 it's overtly political or not.
I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.
The act of thinking and interpreting is so central to Judaism that it makes more sense that we've become people like Woody Allen - thinkers and talkers and drafters of law.
I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.
The big influence on me was Robert Altman, who, especially in 'Nashville,' transformed my sense of dramatic structure and showed how you could handle overlapping stories.
The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.
I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
Roy: The immutable heart of what we are that bleeds through whatever we might become. All else is vanity.
Harper: You, the one part ofthe real world I wasn't allergic to.
You can't live in the world without an idea of the world, but it's living that makes the ideas. You can't wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.
