Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The greatest problem with Irish Wolfhounds, though, is that they don’t live very long: their great hearts give out. A good deal of this is genetic, of course, but I think it is in part that they worry so for us, care so much.
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
Arthur Miller once payed me a great compliment saying that my plays were ‘necessary.’ I will go one step further and say that Arthur’s plays are ‘essential’
Maybe it’s a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play’s a little more pertinent now.
I think I was probably wondering, having looked at human beings for a long time, wondering if evolution ever took place. And I still have my doubts.
All plays are social comment to one extent or another.
To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you’re starting at a huge disadvantage.
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
I’m not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing – and I plan to go on writing until I’m 90 or gaga – it will all equal itself out.
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.
When you write a play, you make a set of assumptions – that you have something to say, that you know how to say it, that its worth saying, and that maybe someone will come along for the ride.
I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
Art should never try to be popular.
Sincerity doesn’t mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.
I swear, if you existed I’d divorce you.
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.