"If you think of dramaturgy in North America, which is so realistic and so literal sometimes, sometimes what theaters - especially dramaturgs - ask for is more information, which sometimes can really weigh down a play. There's only so much information a play can have. If you start putting in so much information, it becomes something completely different, it doesn't sing."

-- Nilo Cruz

#Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.”
“When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.”
“Every country has its cocktail-party question. A simple one-sentence query, the answer to which unlocks a motherlode of information about the person you just met.... In Switzerland it is, Where are you from? That is all you need to know about someone.”
“There is nothing impossible in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable.”
“I didnâ€™t realize I was crying until it was time to say the blinding words. â€˜I do,â€™ I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper... When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious. â€˜I do,â€™ he vowed.”
“I flew out here on Southwest Airlines. Southwest has a plane that's painted like Shamu the whale from Sea World. Yeah, that'll be easy to find if that went down in the ocean. That'll be nice, when you're trying to get out and a real whale's humping your window.”
“Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs.”
“Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.”

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