40 Quotes by Richard Greenberg

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.

For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious.

The idea of a rupture between acts occurs in a number of my plays.