24 Quotes by David Ives

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these days if one wants to develop a series - which is what writing a pilot means. I've also been approached about writing episodes for sitcoms, but in order to do that one actually has to watch sitcoms. . . . Life's too short for television, and I don't what it on my actual gravestone, HE STARED AT A BOX FOR 10,000 HOURS.

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.