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
You dont go to the movies to do historical research, unless its historical research about the movies. – Tony Kushner
You have a strange relationship with calamity when youre a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and thats a creepy thing to do. – Tony Kushner
You have to have hope. Its irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think its irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of. – Tony Kushner