I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree on part…

- Nilo Cruz

I think I have a certain kind of style. I think at the same time, I'm aware that there's certain things that I did as a playwright in certain plays, …

- Nilo Cruz

If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask fo…

- Nilo Cruz

I think that the Pulitzer Prize is definitely a blessing, but it's also a curse. Because I think that it is a blessing because the work gets more exp…

- Nilo Cruz

I actually cut my sentences a lot. I'm very aware of the actor, giving them too many words - just a mouthful of words - it's difficult sometimes for …

- Nilo Cruz

One of the good thing about theater in the states, is that the playwright we do have a say, especially in the beginning, when the play is being discu…

- Nilo Cruz

Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a g…

- Nilo Cruz

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I brought in. B…

- Nilo Cruz

I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I listen to boleros. But I think it's…

- Nilo Cruz