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Eric Bogosian

"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."

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"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."

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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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"For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy."
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"I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house."
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