Tony Kushner | trust
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.
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Tony Kushner | technology
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.
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Tony Kushner | success
The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think in the broadest sense is legitimate to say is mainstream. I mean, in a certain sense, Suzan-Lori’s plays have had mainstream levels of success. But Suzan-Lori is in some ways not a narrative realist.
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Tony Kushner | strength
There’s a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility.
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Tony Kushner | relationship
I feel there’s a power in theatre, but it’s an indirect power. It’s like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can’t afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
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Tony Kushner | relationship
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.
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Tony Kushner | politics
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
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Tony Kushner | patience
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
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Tony Kushner | movies
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It’s difficult when you’re used to owning the copyright and having a landlord’s possessory rights – I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I’m upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I’ve worked with are pretty great.
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