I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story in cinematic ways, but theater is a much more elusive craft.
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort … - David Ives
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort …
- David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. - David Ives
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these … - David Ives
I have been approached now and again about sitcoms, but, with very few exceptions, one simply needs to move to L.A. for at least a year or two these …
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart. - David Ives
All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story… - David Ives
I've taught both screenwriting and playwriting, and playwriting is both much harder and much more rewarding. One can teach people how to tell a story…
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those m… - David Ives
Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those m…
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this. - David Ives
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. - David Ives
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings. - David Ives
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
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