Author: Tracy Letts

Quotes

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

- Tracy Letts

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.

- Tracy Letts

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.

- Tracy Letts

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

I don't believe moviegoers don't have patience. Screenwriters are told a scene can't be longer than three minutes, that you have to cut to the chase. Not true!

- Tracy Letts

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.

- Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

- Tracy Letts

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

- Tracy Letts

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