40 Quotes by Christopher Durang

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them.

One of my impulses in writing is to take people's crazy behavior and try to make order of what sometimes feels chaotic in the past.

My father was an alcoholic, and my mother fought with him when he was drunk, which was not necessarily the best way to confront the problem.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius, ... But I believed everything my teachers and many in my family said.

Usually you cannot laugh if you are in a bad mood or in the throes of a problem that seems like the most serious problem in the world.

It was like . . . Mad magazine,

My parents didn't really know one another.

The first several scenes are about sexual addiction. They're not specifically political at all. . . . I didn't sit down and think, I am going to write something about the religious right. I started out by writing something about sexual addiction, and it evolved. . . . I don't look at a calendar and say, Oh! There's going to be an election in 1996. I think now, in 1993, I'll start writing a play that will be ready for it.

Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.