Tracy Letts Quotes
All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
The window shades have all been removed. Nighttime is now free to encroach.
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
Listen to me: die after me, all right? I don't care what else you do, where you go, how you screw up your life, just... survive. Outlive me, please.
I'm kind of perverse in that I think pessimism is helpful. My pessimism is my own kind of patriotism. My dissent.
I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.
If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.
Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!