On different projects, different pieces of you will show up. Sometimes it’s surprising which piece shows up. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
The black experience, which has nothing to do with my play ‘Angels in America,’ allowed me to understand the Mormon character. He was the character that couldn’t come out to his mother. It allowed me to understand emotional and closeted behavior, because you’re so acutely aware of how you’re perceived. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
Growing up in the South, I was raised to be a Negro boy. I was acutely aware how other people perceived me, and that informed my behavior. That worked for a period of time, but it could also be suffocating. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
A lot of ’20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and some sense of irreverence. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
1985 – That was my time in New York, and I have such poetic, fond memories. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
I love working with actors who will just go, ‘Oh O.K., let’s try it and see where it goes,’ and ‘Let’s see what we can discover.’ George C. Wolfe Read Quote
My first play, ‘The Colored Museum,’ was done in ’86 at the Public Theater. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
A musical is what happens when text collides with motion collides with song collides with spectacle. And spectacle can be the human heart; it doesn’t necessarily have to be a helicopter crashing. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
My absolutely favorite time of working on a project is the time I spend not knowing what it is. Because the longer you live inside that period, the likelier you are to discover something new. George C. Wolfe Read Quote
