So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
Tony KushnerI write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Iām not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.
Tony KushnerI'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.
Tony KushnerIn a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
Tony Kushner