“I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'” IfsThinkingMindArtMy OwnFictionOpinionWatchesHistoricalSeriesComplexityWorks Of ArtHistorical FictionGood WorkRichnessBotheredEmbeddedDelivering Author:Tony Kushner
“I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.” PeopleWorldBlackWhiteNew YorkGrewGrew UpTownsSouthernBlack PeopleTouristsSubwayColumbiaAstounded Author:Tony Kushner
“I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.” PeopleFirstsBelieveDreamSchoolAmericaI BelieveGoneAngelSickAidsBedroomCeilingsVirusesI Had A DreamAngels In America Author:Tony Kushner
“I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.” ThinkingShouldBelieveFilmI BelieveTheaterDebatePlaywrightPundits Author:Tony Kushner
“I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I’m not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.” WritingDoePlayUsePureScoreRepresentationCartoonistBorderlineIllustrators Author:Tony Kushner
“I'm happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was - but it's almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with 'Angels,' and it still generates income for me, but it's not enough for me to live on and have health insurance.” FeelsLittlesStillsEnoughPlayActorsImpossibleAngelIncomeMovieFilmmakingPlaywright Author:Tony Kushner
“If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.” IfsWorldShouldHandsBlackLevelsGayMembersStriveSecureParksPsychicsTaxiMenaceHolding Hands Author:Tony Kushner
“In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.” WayFilmTechnologyTelevisionJournalismPrintImplicationsComprehensionTranceFilm And Television Author:Tony Kushner
“The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original.” ThinkingFactsLinesFictionOriginalsHistoricalEnormousHandleHistorical FictionHistorianPresidencyConsensusFidelity Author:Tony Kushner
“Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.” WantEndsLightActorsShootingMovieTunnelsLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:Emir Kusturica