George C. Wolfe Quotes

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George C. Wolfe

Profession : Playwright

Birth : September 23, 1954

You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up.

George C. Wolfe

I'm interested in exploring how an individual maintains a sense of power in a world that tends to make individuals feel powerless.

George C. Wolfe

Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.

George C. Wolfe

In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where the doctor's office was,' and 'That's where we bought ice cream.' And he was pointing to empty lots. When you lose communities, what do you have? We often survive by remembering the stories.

George C. Wolfe

It may take a while, but I think 'On the Town' has the potential for us to break down the boundaries between the traditional theatergoer who may have fond memories of the musical and those with a 'Broadway-is-not-for-me' agenda.

George C. Wolfe

When 'The Normal Heart' first appeared, the sense of urgency was so important.

George C. Wolfe

I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.

George C. Wolfe

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

George C. Wolfe

I don't go, like, 'Hmm, I'm now going to create something for the black community.' I just feel this compelling urge. I just feel myself drawn to stories that I feel have a potency and immediacy.

George C. Wolfe

I feel like I've been very blessed in the sense that I've had the veracity of spirit to not be stopped and, at the same time, the protective energy and the generosity of those who have come before me, who saw something inside of me and, therefore, invited me into rooms that I would not have been inside of otherwise.

George C. Wolfe

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

George C. Wolfe

The wonderful thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. The worst thing about theater is that it has so many people involved in the creation of it. That dynamic is thrilling and challenging every time you make a show.

George C. Wolfe

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can.

George C. Wolfe

I feel like I'm edgy and I'm funny and I got this bite, this outrageousness.

George C. Wolfe

There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

George C. Wolfe

I want to create a theater that looks, feels, and smells like America.

George C. Wolfe

Theater should address the stories of its communities, or I don't know why it's here.

George C. Wolfe

Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.

George C. Wolfe

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

George C. Wolfe

Something that can be so vital at one point can be inconsequential at another. I'm just intrigued by that phenomenon.

George C. Wolfe