Author: Tracy Letts

Quotes

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

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

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

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

I don't have a great face for camera.

I don't have a great face for camera.

- 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

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

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