Quotes by Israel Horovitz - Page 1

I don't direct the plays of others.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Direct
Play
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I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Cow
Spanish
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Radical politics tend to be simple minded.
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Minded
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I am an internationally produced playwright.
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Internationally
Produced
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France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
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France
Writers
Welcoming
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I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.
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Needs
Play
Writing
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My dream is to have a small company in France.
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France
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Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
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All Time
Irrelevant
Theatre
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The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.
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Has Beens
Holocaust
Stories
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I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
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Response
Visceral
Working Class
Memory
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I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.
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Any Other Way
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What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.
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Center
Creates
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I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
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Mass
Jewish
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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Opera
Rooted
Soap
Soap Opera
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I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of 'Lebensraum' in dozens of languages around the globe.
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Productions
Languages
Dozens
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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Old Man
Torah
Carrying
Expect
Man Old Man People
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It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Florida
Unusual
Winter
Work Great People
Tourist
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Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Working Class
Tourist
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My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
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Agent
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I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
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Amusing
Awards
Establishment
Irony
Instantly
Vaguely
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L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Cute
Arcane
Focused
Theater
Tv
Look People Doing
Sport
Tv And Film
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Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.
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Actors
Invention
Theater
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If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.
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Appreciate
People
Preparation
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You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Acceptance
Doe
Love You
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Frightened
Old Age
Your Body
Good Shape
Terrors
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I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.
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Running
Long
Paris
Play
Produced
Returned
Runs
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Hebrew
Lessons
Massachusetts
Towns
Jewish
Named
Mr
High School Teacher
School Teacher
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
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Absurdity
Play
Stories
Writing
Poem
Troubling
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There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.
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Punishment
Real
Self
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Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.
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Art
Beach
Enthusiastic
Garage
Safe Haven
Sculpture
Writing
Center
Haven
Playwrights
Vital
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Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Alive
Audience
Disbelief
Hours
Lovely
Theatre
Wonderful
Art Form
Love Faith Time
Same Time
Suspend
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While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Laughing
One Day
Trying
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Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.
Israel Horovitz / Playwright
Dream
Character
Writing
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