“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.” WorldWayShouldKindArtSelfFeelingsAudienceCreativeExpressionIndustryExpectationsExcitedEngagementConstraintsSelf Expression Author:Ayad Akhtar
“I think of myself as a narrative artist. I don't think of myself as a novelist or screenwriter or playwright. All of those modalities of processing and experiencing narrative are obviously very different, and I'm not sure that I prefer any one to the other. I think the novel gives you the opportunity to have a kind of interiority that you can't have in the theater, which is pure exteriority.” ThinkingGivingKindDifferentArtistOpportunityNovelNot SurePlaywright Author:Ayad Akhtar
