Richard Greenberg quotes

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait. (Richard Greenberg)
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly. View quote
Richard Greenberg
I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind. View quote
Richard Greenberg
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. View quote
Richard Greenberg
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us. View quote
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By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central. View quote
Richard Greenberg

Richard Greenberg

Occupation: American Playwright
Born: February 22, 1958
Quotes count: 6