I find writing very difficult. Its hard and it hurts sometimes, and its scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities. – Tony Kushner
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution. – Tony Kushner
I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. Im not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations. – Tony Kushner
I feel theres a power in theatre, but its an indirect power. Its like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you cant afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about. – Tony Kushner
I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head. – Malcolm Mclaren