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I think what helps me when I'm working on a play, any play, is the degree to which the writer has truly visualized, and then fulfilled, the vision of the world that he or she is creating.

— Jeffrey DeMunn

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

— Andy Summers

I write plays about big, intense subjects.

— Anna Deavere Smith

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

— Libba Bray

In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done - but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living.

— Lee Hall

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

— Tracy Letts

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

— Robert Anderson

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

— Wallace Shawn

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

— Ken Hill

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.

— Sam Shepard