I mean there’s a certain finality about a movie, when it’s done it’s done – that raised eyebrow in that moment will always be that raised eyebrow. Whereas a play only lives as a blueprint for a performance on any given night. There’s a reason you can eat popcorn and watch a movie and you can’t do that in the theatre. Theatre you have to lean in, you have to tune your ear to the stage and participateI respond to heat. And blood. And humanity. The cold experience is not for me. I’ve always enjoyed all the real people in a room together in the theatre.
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instea… - Tracy Letts
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instea…
- Tracy Letts
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point? - Tracy Letts
If you're not entertaining, what the hell's the point?
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you beco… - Tracy Letts
You get to know a character that you play on-stage in a pretty profound way over a length of time. I don't want to sound highfalutin and say you beco…
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good. - Tracy Letts
I don't know what it says about me that I have a greater affinity with the damaged. Probably nothing good.
I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on. - Tracy Letts
I like Shakespeare, but I never know what the hell is going on.
All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she w… - Tracy Letts
All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she w…
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and exper… - Tracy Letts
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and exper…
A certain giving up of control is good for the soul. - Tracy Letts
A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love. - Tracy Letts
My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.
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