Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a folk-art…

- George C. Wolfe

I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.

- George C. Wolfe

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black pr…

- George C. Wolfe

Every play is rhythmic control. If you want an audience to go on a journey, it's rhythmic control. You're crafting when they lean in, when they push …

- George C. Wolfe

I'm watching the show and I'm watching the audience watch the show. Because once you leave the rehearsal room, you have space and you can see it. You…

- George C. Wolfe

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they are designed to create delight, wond…

- George C. Wolfe

With music, you can create instant trust with an audience. You can hear three notes, and you surrender to it, whereas it takes you about ten minutes …

- George C. Wolfe

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who are used to looking up to a bl…

- George C. Wolfe

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

- George C. Wolfe