22 Quotes by Annie Baker

I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

I’m very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren’t talking on stage. I’m interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.