Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
Edward AlbeeRead
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
Interpretation
Avant-garde theater challenges traditional norms and encourages an open-minded approach for a rewarding experience.
Edward Albee emphasizes the significance of experiencing avant-garde theater with an open mind and a sense of childlike wonder. By setting aside preconceived notions and societal expectations, audiences can fully appreciate the boldness and humor of this unconventional art form, leading to unexpected and liberating insights.
In practice
In a speech to aspiring actors and playwrights encouraging them to embrace creativity, one could quote Albee to inspire them.
Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he is no longer a critic; he is a censor.
I am convinced that no one is fully educated without a full grounding in the arts.
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.
The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.
She's got those big black eyes with plenty shiny white in them that makes them shine like brand new money and she knows what God gave women eyelashes for, too. Her hair is not what you might call straight. It's negro hair, but it's got a kind of white flavor. Like the piece of string out of a ham. It's not ham at all, but it's been around ham and got the flavor.
People say my films are dark. But like lightness, darkness stems from a reflection of the world. The thing is, I get these ideas that I truly fall in love with. And a good movie idea is often like a girl you're in love with, but you know she's not the kind of girl you bring home to your parents, because they sometimes hold some dark and troubling things.
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an insect, lost in contemplation of the flavours to come, I feel as if I were being drawn into a trance.
When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
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