For some reason, 1968 is a touchstone year for me. I think it was the first year I felt fully conscious. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it’s never been central. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it’s supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn’t find exactly that. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
I’m sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don’t really know what’s going on because as we’re trying to weave, it’s weaving us. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
When you’re writing plays, it’s possible to believe you don’t have any real world skill. When you’re adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don’t know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It’s not all about temperament. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
My friends and family have been so well trained that they know I really mean it when I say that I don’t care if the review is good, because that can be as dangerous as when it’s bad. It’s less demoralizing, but it can be just as confusing. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly. Richard Greenberg Read Quote
I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there’s the thought, ‘Why can’t they catch up?’ Richard Greenberg Read Quote
