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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"With my background, I came out of the theater."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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"Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!"
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."
Day
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
Force
"So I decided to start writing plays, and went to Yale."
Writing
"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."
Actor
"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."
Love
"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything."
Time
"All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they heard on the tape, but at a slower speed, so we'd get a web of language."
Thought
"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
Civilization
"Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits."
Age
"You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army."
Army
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