Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.
Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
Numbers of sales do not correspond to numbers of readers.
One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.
Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.