Tony Kushner

You have to have hope. It’s irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a…

I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and…

Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them…

The kind of theater that I do is sort of ‘narrative realism,’ which I think…

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty…

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as…

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that…

Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It’s difficult when…

I don’t feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I’m…

I feel there’s a power in theatre, but it’s an indirect power. It’s like the…

A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one…

The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that ‘Lincoln…

I find writing very difficult. It’s hard and it hurts sometimes, and it’s scary because…

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely…

People shouldn’t trust artists and they shouldn’t trust art. Part of the fun of art…