Stephen Karam Quotes

All of my plays are deeply autobiographical. But it's not straight autobiography.
Because I didn't go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a 'grown up' playwright - that's become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.
Chekhov would have been an excellent screenwriter. He is singularly good at dipping in and out of a group of people's lives, like Robert Altman did.
'Columbinus' was four years of my life, collaborating with a lot of people and gathering lots of information.
Coming home for me isn't, like, one family dinner. It's about am I gonna see 50 relatives, or am I gonna see 85?
Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.
Good actors can tell you more about your play than 1,000 hours alone at your desk.
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.
I didn't quite fit in in any particular, specific way. I was a gay teenager who was into drama.
I don't come from a family of artists.
I don't go into rehearsal for a production unless I've figured everything out.
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.
I had spent four months in Cedar City, Utah, right after graduation as an intern at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. It's a town that has many people living the polygamous lifestyle.
I hope to be known as a writer who told the truth.
I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.
I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.
I lived in a basement duplex on 96th Street on the Upper West Side.
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
I think it's scary to be alive, but also exhilarating and joyful.
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