“Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.” WritingArtAudienceHavensPaintingSafeTheatreBeachSculptureEnthusiasticPlaywrightGarageSafe HavenBirthing Author:Israel Horovitz
“Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.” TheatreAll TimeIrrelevant Author:Israel Horovitz
“The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.” Has BeensStoriesHolocaust Author:Israel Horovitz
“I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.” LongHas BeensPlayRunningAudienceParisLong Runs1960sRevival Author:Israel Horovitz
“I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.” WritingEnoughPlayFactsStoriesFilmEnjoyWrittenAbsurdity Author:Israel Horovitz
“If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.” PeopleIfsAcceptingWonderfulAppreciatePreparationAppreciate YouExplain Yourself Author:Israel Horovitz
“While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.” IfsKnowsTryingDifferentTogetherFilmNextActorsRoomsLaughingOne DayTheaterReactionsShootingImpressRehearsalCompetitiveness Author:Israel Horovitz
“Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.” KnowsActorsKnow HowTheaterInventionPlaywright Author:Israel Horovitz
“There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.” RealEndsSelfGreaterCrimeStrangeBecomingWorthyPunishmentFrightenedAssimilationReal Self Book:The Indian Wants the Bronx Source: The Indian Wants the Bronx
“You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.” IfsWantDoeLove YouAcceptanceYou ChooseOne LovePragmatism Author:Israel Horovitz
“Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.” ThinkingWritingIdeasEndsPlayCharacterStoriesDreamActionFilmFormLiteratureAnswersNovelAliveStageTelevisionFitDrivenScreensCraftsFurniture Author:Israel Horovitz
