21 Quotes by Anna D. Shapiro

Everyone has the talent to some degree: even making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you know whether it tastes better to you with raspberry jam or grape jelly; on chewy pumpernickel or white toast.

Amy Morton is a machine. If she misses a show it’s because someone amputated her leg and she’s looking for it.

I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.

The one thing that never changes in America is that the white straight male is born with a promise. Women are not promised very much, and we embody our disappointment from the beginning.

I wish theater criticism in this country could be more of a companion piece to the experience than a warning about where not to spend your money.

I would love to figure out a way to be less careful and more adventurous.

Theater, for me, is no longer a conversation about how we destroy each other; it's much more about how we may be destroying everyone else.

Steppenwolf has always been at the center of everything in my professional life.

There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.