John Guare Quotes
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I am the same artist with the same nagging questions I had in my early 20's. What's real and what isn't? How do we tell what's real in our lives? How do we see things as they are? What is my role in life? If the Signature hadn't forced the issue by devoting its season to my plays, I could at least believe I had changed. Really, they're all the same! What is SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION but THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES with money?
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And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
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Oh, I never use a seat belt. I don't believe in gravity.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.
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I don't think about taking a risk. I think about how far can I go. How can I make myself. What are the risks I must create.
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Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.
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New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.
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Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.
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And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.
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Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.
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Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.
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Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
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The power of the past to still dominate our thinking today.
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We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
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There's no such thing as a perfect play. Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play.
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The rich live hand-to-mouth too-just on a higher level.
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I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.
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I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes.
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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
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There's no American playwright after 1945 who wasn't profoundly affected - who didn't have their DNA changed by Tennessee Williams.
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Like a dog, a playwright lives in an eternal present and a play is never closed.
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I think a playwright must be his own dramaturg. I believe in a theater where the director and the playwright work together to create what they need.
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James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.
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People rewrite the play so much to make it palatable to the audience, to make something clear, that they just deaden it. Like it was left it in the oven too long.
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Sometimes you have to protect the life of the play. It seems like spelling out mysterious, musical details can destroy a play by making the motivations too clear, too simplex.
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
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I only do business with the people I do business with. The people I do business with find out I do business with the people I don't do business with.... I can't do business with you.
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The imagination says listen to me. I am your darkest voice. I am your 4 a.m. voice. I am the voice that wakes you up and says this is what I'm afraid of. Do not listen to me at your peril.... The imagination is not our escape. On the contrary, the imagination is the place we are all trying to get to.
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How much of your life can you account for? My life is a collage of unaccounted for brush strokes; I am all random”.
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