Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton WilderCharacterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
Thornton WilderThe theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
Thornton WilderOnly it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Thornton Wilder