Israel Horovitz Quotes

• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

  Israel Horovitz

  Actors, Invention, Theater

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.

  Israel Horovitz

  Dream, Character, Writing

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• Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

  Israel Horovitz

  Theatre, All Time, Irrelevant

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• I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

  Israel Horovitz

  Running, Play, Paris

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• While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.

  Israel Horovitz

  Laughing, Trying, One Day

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you prepare, and you've got wonderful, bright people who get it, who accept and appreciate your preparation, then you don't have to explain yourself 9,000 times.

  Israel Horovitz

  People, Appreciate, Preparation

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.

  Israel Horovitz

  Writing, Play, Stories

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• I don't direct the plays of others.

  Israel Horovitz

  Play, Direct

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• The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

  Israel Horovitz

  Holocaust, Stories, Has Beens

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• I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.

  Israel Horovitz

  Writing, Play, Needs

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• Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.

  Israel Horovitz

  Beach, Art, Writing

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• You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

  Israel Horovitz

  Love You, Acceptance, Doe

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