George C Wolfe Quotes

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to me. And horrifying to me.
I think there's an aspect of my soul, of my personality, that's very suited to directing. I like being in the room with actors; I love creating a safe space and a chaotic space for the discovery to take place. I love creating a sense of community.
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.
I viewed black musicals before 'Jelly' as a form of cultural strip mining. The exterior remained, but all the culture that signified where the people had come from and their connection to the earth was absent.
I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.
I was obsessed with New York early on. I was watching sitcoms that were set in or around New York, like 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.' I was always very fascinated with the people who were on 'What's My Line?' and I always had an incredible obsession with the city.
I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.
I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.
I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.
I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.
I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.
I'm the most democratic fascist you'll ever meet. I listen to everybody, and then I make a decision.
I've always tried to do shows in a filmic way. I like it when forms smack up against each other.
If I hadn't told stories, I would've been a historian.
If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room.
If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere.
In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.
In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories.
It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda.
It's easier to be cynical and edgy and tough rather than overly emotional.
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