Lynn Nottage famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Just because itâ€™s a unique perspective doesnâ€™t mean it canâ€™t offer something universal.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Mean #Unique #Perspective
Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Play #Mind #Shrinking
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
-- Lynn Nottage

#War #Roles #Normalcy
If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Successful #Thinking #Want
Each play I write has its own unique origin story.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Writing #Unique #Play
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'
-- Lynn Nottage

#Thinking #African American #Broadway
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Writing #Needs #Release
I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.
-- Lynn Nottage

#War #Writing #Fire
A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Responsibility #Rights #Play
I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.
-- Lynn Nottage

#War #Media #Library
African American women in particular have incredible buying power. Statistically, we go to the movies more than anyone. We have made Tyler Perrys career. His films open with $25 million almost consistently.
-- Lynn Nottage

#Careers #African American #Buying

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