Tony Kushner's Quote - You have to have hope. Its irresponsible to give false hope, which

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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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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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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 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

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