George C. Wolfe

I love working with actors who will just go, 'Oh O.K., let's try it and see where it goes,' and 'Let's see what we can discover.' ”

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter. ”

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater. ”

If you have the talent and passion and commitment, you shouldn't be locked out of the room. ”

I love Kabuki, Noh theater and bunraku. ”

If you love theatre, do theatre wherever you can, because theatre is theatre, and you can experience it anywhere. ”

The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play 'Angels in America,' allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn't come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you're so acutely aware of how you're perceived. ”

I'm perpetually interested by living in places as an artist confronting challenges I've never confronted before and approaching them with as much craft and humanity as I can. ”

As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me. ”

Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist. ”