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You have to have hope. Its irresponsible to give false hope, which

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

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A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of Zola, Uncle Toms Cabin and, in modern drama, Larry Kramers The Normal Heart. – Tony Kushner

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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

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