Audiences and, to a large extent, critics who want less from theater than it is possible for it to give. If everybody’s encouraged to want less, you’ll end up with less.
EDWARD ALBEEI find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
More Edward Albee Quotes
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Every monster was a man first.
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I have learned that neither kindness or cruelty by themselves, or independent of each other, create any effect beyond themselves.
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Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process–it is, after all, black magic.
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Creativity is magic. Don’t examine it too closely.
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The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn’t matter.
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As a playwright, I imagine that in one fashion or another I’ve been influenced by every single play I’ve ever experienced.
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I don’t feel that catharsis in a play necessarily takes place during the course of a play. Often it should take place afterward.
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Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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Progress is a set of assumptions.
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American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf means who’s afraid of the big bad wolf, who’s afraid of living life without false illusions.
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I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
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I think you remember everything, you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.
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What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
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