"Theater is about interpretation and what an actor and what a director brings to a piece too. I'm open to it every time I work with a director and a group of actors. I have to be open to that interpretation. I'm not one of those hysterical playwrights that come and say, "This is not what I intended to do." It's one rendition of the piece."

-- Nilo Cruz

#Hysterical Quotes #Playwright Quotes

“I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.”
“Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it's not that simple...Real-life kings had real-life problems to deal with.... My people who are trying to rule don't have an easy time of it. Just having good intentions doesn't make you a wise king.”
“There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points and heartbreaks only make sense as we look back, rather than as we are experiencing them. So we might as well live life as if - as the poet Rumi put it - everything is rigged in our favor.”

Source : Arianna Huffington (2014). “Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder”, p.22, Harmony
“More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.”
“The way people see you is the way you really are.”

Source : "Stone me!". Interview with Jon Savage, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2008.
“Imagine the first discovery that one of these epidemics was man-madeâ€”the panic, the violence that would ensue. Thatâ€™s where the end would come. A typhoon kills a few hundred people, does a few billion in damage, and what do we do?â€ Erskine interlocked his fingers. â€œWe come together. We put the pieces back. But a terroristâ€™s bomb.â€ He frowned. â€œA terroristâ€™s bomb does the same damage, and it throws the world into turmoil.â€ He spread his hands apart like an explosion going off. â€œWhen thereâ€™s only God to blame, we forgive him. When itâ€™s our fellow man, we must destroy him.”
“If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the valley. When they're content to live with death, to become what the men on the hills want them to be, then Sarajevo will die.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.136, Atlantic Books Ltd
“The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.”

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