“I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingConventionsNaturalism Author:Wallace Shawn
“You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.” PeopleTryingPersonsTwoPlayRealityFightingConversationSittingSellsIntimacyContradictionFar AwayAway From YouBluntAlways Fighting Author:Wallace Shawn
“What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is like trying to make gunpowder out of chemicals. You have these words and sentences and the strange meanings and associations that are attached to the words and sentences, and you're somehow cooking these things all up so that they suddenly explode and have a powerful effect. That's what absorbs me from day to day in writing a play.” WritingTryingPlayPowerfulEffectsStrangeInvolvedCookingSentencesChemicalsAssociationDay To DayGunpowderPlay Writing Author:Wallace Shawn
“I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different - you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingKindDifferentFeelingsFantasyImagineOne DayPainfulIntenseTruthfulBrutalMe AloneNaturalism Author:Wallace Shawn
“Acting is trying to be absolutely truthful; to get audiences to believe that you are a dean, when, actually, not only are you not the dean, but if you walked into the building they'd probably throw you out. That's very hard.” IfsTryingBelieveHardActingAudienceBuildingTruthfulDean Author:Wallace Shawn
