5 Quotes by Nicholas Martin

I grew up on a diet of 'Spider-Man' cartoons.

Like the city of Venice, everything has been said about August Wilson, but what demands repetition is that he's arguably the finest playwright of the second half of the last century. And that with Lorraine Hansberry, he is responsible for making the real black experience part of the American consciousness.

I've never worked on a set this detailed. In a sense, the design for the original production was the beginning of naturalism in scenic design on the American stage. Jimmy's sets take the lights so beautifully. I'm hoping you'll really think you're on a New York street in 1935.

I used to feed spiders in the hedgerow where my grandmother used to live. I used to spend hours just lying on the front lawn watching ants go by.

I'm drawn to plays with huge canvases and huge casts, and this is the prototype of that kind of play. There's a kind of energy in this play that you don't associate with social drama as a rule.