104 Quotes by George C. Wolfe

Anytime you create art, you create a mess. I mean, 'Hamlet' is a mess!

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.'

I'm more attracted to art that smashes than I am attracted to art that sits on a shelf and is beautiful.

To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.

I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku.

A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn't necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing.

I was raised to believe that other people's suffering was my responsibility.

When I was little, I remember rehearsing starving so that when I got to New York I would know how to do it.

In Los Angeles, wealth and poverty are separated by the freeways. In New York, they're next to each other.