Israel Horovitz Quotes

I don't direct the plays of others.

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

I used to hate boys... I grew up... Things changed. Now I hate men.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.

I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

I was not to the manor born.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

France is very welcoming to foreign writers.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

Art has no answers, only solutions, and resolutions... Art has only vision and revision... Art has only hope and more hope... again and again, against circumstance and history... What we hope life might be, again and again, against what we see it has been. In hope, there is a reason to continue.