If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.
Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain? - John Patrick Shanley
Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?
- John Patrick Shanley
I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed. - John Patrick Shanley
I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.
Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done. - John Patrick Shanley
Theatre is the safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the p… - John Patrick Shanley
People ask me if I believe in things: in God, in astrology, and I say, absolutely! I believe in everything! And I believe in its opposite. Like the p…
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks … - John Patrick Shanley
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks …
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in ord… - John Patrick Shanley
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in ord…
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. - John Patrick Shanley
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
Where the terror is, you must go. - John Patrick Shanley
Where the terror is, you must go.
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are. - John Patrick Shanley
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
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