104 Quotes by George C. Wolfe

Producing has empowered me as an artist in a specific way. It's forced a certain kind of maturity.

Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating.

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived.

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it's surprising which piece shows up.

There's no place more theatrical than history.

The only rule of a musical is that it must maintain its buoyancy.

A lot of directors tend to manipulate actors' vulnerability to get what they want, and that can work.