Richard Greenberg Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It seems that the hurdle you have to jump over is everyone's informed opinion. When you're a young playwright, you're probably too precarious in your own technique to understand that when these seemingly informed opinions are contradicting each other, it becomes this paralyzing monolith.”

“For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.”

“I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.”

“I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?”

“I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.”

“It's weird, because I don't feel prolific. I don't write anything for months at a time.”

“My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.”

“You do think, if you have your druthers, 'I want to sort of be, not anonymous, but unknown'. But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?”

“I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.”

“My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don't care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it's bad. It's less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing.”