Quotes by David Ives - Page 1

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
David Ives / Playwright
Perfect
Song
Three
Pop Songs
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I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
David Ives / Playwright
New York
New York Times
Should
Thinking
Verse
York
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Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
David Ives / Playwright
Democratic
Elitist
Lists
Print
Sometimes
Discriminatory
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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.
David Ives / Playwright
Light
Play
Thinking
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With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
David Ives / Playwright
Audience
Hours
Thinking
Oh
Least
Lights
Oh God
Plays
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All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
David Ives / Playwright
Crafts
Heart
Warning
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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
David Ives / Playwright
Existential
Existentialism
Intense
Intense Love
Love Relationship
Play
Love Family Always
Plays
Relationships
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Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
David Ives / Playwright
Deals
Theatre
Writing
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Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
David Ives / Playwright
Instruments
Play
Symphony
Writing
Less
Demanded
Invent
Start
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Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
David Ives / Playwright
Amenable
Giving
Interesting
Possibility
Writing
Verse
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Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David Ives / Playwright
Bunch
Casting
Effort
Involved
People
Play
Process
Thinking
Alike
Collaborative
Necessarily
Organic
Putting
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I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.
David Ives / Playwright
People
Stories
Theatre
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Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?
David Ives / Playwright
Jobs
Design
Writing
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I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.
David Ives / Playwright
Mean
Moving
Writing
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