David Ives quotes

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. (David Ives)
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. View quote
David Ives
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. View quote
David Ives
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. View quote
David Ives
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' View quote
David Ives
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. View quote
David Ives
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. View quote
David Ives
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. View quote
David Ives