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You have to have hope. It's ir...

You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

If you know that life is basic...

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

The way that same-sex marriage...

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as possible. It's a 14th Amendment issue. There's no argument about it.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

You don't go to the movies to ...

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

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

As much as I hate his movies, ...

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 129 quotes

I write plays and movies, I li...

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

Artists know that diligence co...

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 129 quotes

I don't feel, finally, that my...

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

You have a strange relationshi...

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 129 quotes

I feel there's a power in thea...

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.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

There's a kind of a fundamenta...

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

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

The kind of theater that I do ...

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.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

In a way, film and television ...

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 129 quotes

People shouldn't trust artists...

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 129 quotes

Unions are susceptible to the ...

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

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

If you have value as an artist...

If you have value as an artist it's probably going to be in your capacity to let things inside you get past things that are placed there to keep you from telling the truth. The more you see things as clearly and coldly as you can, the more value you're going to have.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

You have a strange relationshi...

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 129 quotes

A play should have barely been...

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

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

Artists know that diligence co...

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 129 quotes

As a playwright, you are a tor...

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Tony Kushner 129 quotes

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