Quotes by David Lindsay-Abaire - Page 1

Only assholes write plays about Nazis.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Nazi
Play
Writing
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I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Lyricists
Musical
Want
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I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Lyricist
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With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Men
Bottom
Totems
Work Always Man
Work Man Always
Pole
Totem
Totem Pole
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So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Events
Unlikely
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My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Clarity
Outsiders
Play
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Class
Identity
Knows
Life Me Day
Shaped
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I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Chance
Harder
People
People Know Who
People Know Hard
Chances
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I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Dark
People
Writing
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I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Thinking
Who I Am
Writing
Hole
Rabbit
Wanting
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I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Looks
Rabbits
Writing
Portfolio
Frankly
Hole
Interests
Rabbit
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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Age
Class
Conflict
Elbows
Felt
Identity
Social
Social Class
Tension
Young
Young Age
Different Kind
Rubbing
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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Critics
Hated
Ordinary
Passion
Play
Writing
Comedies
Passion People See
Naturalistic
Respectfully
Unbridled
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I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Break
Luck
Smart
Work Smart People
Apply
Firsthand
Incredibly
Saying
Themselves
Work Hard
Worked
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Honestly
Humble
Lovely
People
Thinking
Humble Me People
Crystal
Perceptions
Pulitzer
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Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Every Night
Film
Night
Painting
Stage
Theater
Control
Visual
Actor
Does
Director
Charge
Performance
Medium
Mostly
Pictures
Terms
Says
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Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Cash
Notes
Change Your People
Charge
Check
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We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American thing to say, but I don't think that's true. It's true for a lot of people, but you need other things to succeed. You need luck, you need opportunity, and you need the life skills to recognize what an opportunity is.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Opportunity
Accomplish
Hard Work
Luck
Myth
Skills
Succeed
Thinking
Life Work Opportunity
Recognize
Work Hard
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Breathing
Calling
Eight
Golden
Nine
Noon
Pages
Tapping
Toes
Waiting
Work Day People
Neck
Deadlines
Hour
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I'm a playwright by trade, and in theater, writers have complete control over everything. Nobody can change a word without your permission. I've had a couple screenwriting experiences that weren't terrible, but they were typical, where executives came in and gave you sometimes good notes and sometimes horrible notes - but they wanted to change the movie that everybody had agreed to make. After a couple of times, it's like, "Why are we doing this?" The story is not going to turn out very good when 13 people are writing it together.
David Lindsay-Abaire / Playwright
Couple
People
Writing
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