Top 63 Quotes by Tony Kushner

About Tony Kushner

These are some quotes by American author Tony Kushner Playwright, who was born on July 16, 1956.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.

Tony Kushner

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.

Tony Kushner

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Tony Kushner

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

Tony Kushner

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

Tony Kushner

I go into any movie that's historical fiction thinking, 'OK, I'm here to watch a work of art, something delivering a series of opinions, and if it's a good work of art, these opinions become so deeply embedded in complexity and richness that I won't even be bothered by the opinions. I'll make my own mind up.'

Tony Kushner

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

Tony Kushner

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

Tony Kushner

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic.

Tony Kushner

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