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With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.
Young people have got to start their own theaters, really. All good theater is a kind of mom-and-pop operation. Start your own theater.
MARIA. So. How is everyone? Can you hear me? I don't believe in microphones. Singing is first of all about projection. So is speech. People are forgetting how to listen. They want everything blasted at them. Listening takes concentration. If you can't hear me, it's your fault. You're not concentrating.
I like to surprise myself. I've always been attracted to projects where I don't know how they're going to turn out.
I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy, but I don't - life is a blessing.
Whenever you think you're writing what other people want to hear from you, and that it'll be commercial, you're doomed to disaster. Writing has to be as truthful and specific as we can make it. The minute we think that we're reaching more people and pleasing them, we get general. And audiences sense that and turn away, shun us.
If you're trying to write something that you don't understand and embrace at the very core of you, it's not going to turn out with quite the authenticity and passion it should have.
In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
