Katori Hall Quotes

• Don't let others put thoughts into your mind that takes away your self-confidence.

  Katori Hall

  Self Confidence, Self, Mind

  "Interview: Playwright Katori Hall Reaches for King’s Mountaintop". Interview with Lonna Saunders, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2011.

  46 Copy quote

• We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

  Katori Hall

  People, Leader, Trying

  "Katori Hall Talks "Radical" MLK Jr in 'The Mountaintop' Interview" by Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. August 29, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

• Serendipity always rewards the prepared.

  Katori Hall

  Serendipity, Rewards, Prepared

  7 Copy quote

• Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. You don't know everything, and that is so okay, because there are many people who want to help you along your journey. I used to think people above me might get jealous because I wanted to do what they did. But no, people are much nicer than that.

  Katori Hall

  Fun, Jealous, Journey

  7 Copy quote

• I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.

  Katori Hall

  Struggle, Love You, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

  Katori Hall

  August, Wilson, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

  Katori Hall

  Play, Ends, Happens

  4 Copy quote

• I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race.

  Katori Hall

  Writing, Race

  "Art Talk with Playwright Katori Hall". Interview with Paulette Beete, www.arts.gov. May 28, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

• Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.

  Katori Hall

  Men, White Man, Dying

  "Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

  Katori Hall

  Powerful, Hatred, Progress

  4 Copy quote

• Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

  Katori Hall

  Hate, Passion, Hell

  7 Copy quote

• Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

  Katori Hall

  Struggle, Dvds, Play

  4 Copy quote

• I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.

  Katori Hall

  Mirrors, White, Broadway

  4 Copy quote

• Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.

  Katori Hall

  Directors, Needs, Actors

  7 Copy quote

• It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

  Katori Hall

  Running, Drama, Bridges

  5 Copy quote

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin