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

Every director is always directing around the play. If you have an actor who really doesn't get the character well enough, you have to direct the pla…

- 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

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 feel like I have to be a walking encyclopedia - I constantly have to be explaining myself - especially when I do table work or when I'm talking to …

- 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

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

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