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

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

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

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

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.

- David Ives

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

- David Ives

All reviews should carry a Surgeon General's warning. The good ones turn your head, the bad ones break your heart.

- David Ives

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet…

- David Ives