” 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. “
” I was formed by ‘The Forsyte Saga’ marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with. “
” It’s weird, because I don’t feel prolific. I don’t write anything for months at a time. “
” I think I’m a writer, and it’s my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn’t I? “
” 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. “
” By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it’s never been central. “
” My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there’s time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York. “
All 7 Richard Greenberg Quotes about Time in picture
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