37 Quotes by Israel Horovitz

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

My dream is to have a small company in France.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.