And I don't consider Broadway the acropolis of theatrical art. I mean Broadway is commercial - that's what it is. It's expensive seats and a lot of them that have to be filled every night. Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway as far as I'm concerned is in New York the pride of New York theater.
Tony KushnerImagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So when we thing we've escaped the unbearable ordinariness and, well, untruthfulness of our lives, it's really only the same old ordinariness and falseness rearranged into the appearance of novelty and truth. Nothing unknown is knowable.
Tony KushnerI write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Iโm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Tony KushnerYou don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.
Tony Kushner