Tony Kushner Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.”

“I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.”

“I love reading; it's a great way to avoid writing.”

“The computer, the noise of the computer feels like impatience. It's sort of the sound of impatience to me.”

“A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.”

“The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.”

“There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.”

“Accuracy is paramount in every detail of a work of history. Here's my rule: Ask yourself, 'Did this thing happen?' If the answer is yes, then it's historical. Then ask, 'Did this thing happen precisely this way?' If the answer is yes, then it's history; if the answer is no, not precisely this way, then it's historical drama.”

“I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'”

“I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.”