I've always been drawn to writing historical characters. The best stories are the ones you find in history.
Tony KushnerI make my living now as a screenwriter! Which Iโm surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I donโt think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I donโt think anybody does.
Tony KushnerThe smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
Tony KushnerI think that when you're writing plays, and I think it's also true with novels, it helps to have an ear for the music of language, for what we call poetry, for the sound effects and the way that the sound can produce sensual feeling at odds with or consonant with the content of the work. Your work is also gorgeous writing. It's very unfortunate when you open a novel that everybody's loving and it's just, you know, an excruciatingly bad sentence.
Tony Kushner