I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

- Annie Baker

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

- Annie Baker

I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

- Annie Baker

I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm j…

- Annie Baker

Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wonderi…

- Annie Baker

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I rea…

- Annie Baker

Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

- Annie Baker

I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelis…

- Annie Baker

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating abou…

- Annie Baker