Quote by Tony Kushner
You have a strange relationship with calamity when youre a writer:

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

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Im happy that I feel a little less out of place in filmmaking than I once was – but its almost impossible for a playwright in the U.S. to make a living. You can have a play, like I did with Angels, and it still generates income for me, but its not enough for me to live on and have health insurance. – Tony Kushner

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Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things. – Tony Kushner

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You dont go to the movies to do historical research, unless its historical research about the movies. – Tony Kushner

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