Anna D. Shapiro Quotes

There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it's because someone amputated her leg and she's looking for it.

Plays are about understanding what happens, what it means. If we just leaned into the story, for lack of a better word, it would still be a powerful story but, like delight, it might disappear an hour after you saw it.

If you think there is anything in theater that objectively exists without your point of view attached, you are wrong.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

I'm not sure plays tell people anything. I think plays include an audience in an experience that is happening in that moment, and that's the specialness. What people take away has almost as much to do with what they bring as what we do.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

What I've understood is that to be funny is not my job. To see funny is my job.

I just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.