“I regard the theater as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. This supremacy of the theater derives from the fact that it is always "now" on the stage.” TheaterTheatreInterviewsParis Review Author:Thornton Wilder
“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.” BelieveHumansMadeActionHuman BeingsEventsPureTheaterTheatreCommentInvolvingArresting Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'” ActionMoralTheaterTheatre Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.” WayLifeFacesThousandTheaterFaculty Author:Thornton Wilder
“A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.” PeopleYearsFoundTheaterShockCommentSheerGazing Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.” CharacterPastStageEssentialsConsciousStandingTheaterEdgesRazors Book:Conversations with Thornton Wilder Source: Conversations with Thornton Wilder
“The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.” RealEyeEnemyHeardStageDramaEarsTheater Author:Thornton Wilder
