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From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything. -- Richard Foreman
I'm a dramatist. Dramatists have a right to look at history and interpret it the way they see it. -- Oliver Stone
I'm a dramatist. -- Richard LaGravenese
I was trained as a straight dramatist. -- Josh Gad
Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian. -- Cate Blanchett
Shake was a dramatist of note; He lived by writing things to quote. -- H. C. Bunner
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote. -- H. C. Bunner
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. -- Edward Bond
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. -- Oscar Wilde
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history. -- Oliver Stone
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. -- Thornton Wilder
I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do. -- John Logan
When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. -- Cedric Hardwicke
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.' -- Tom Paulin
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. -- Laurence Housman
All the arts, to varying degrees, involve some kind of a compromise. This being so, how far need the radio dramatist go to meet the public without losing sight of himself and his own standards of value? -- Louis MacNeice
There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. -- George Pierce Baker
The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama. -- John Logan
I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation. -- Oliver Stone
Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point. -- John Logan
The Vatican has tried to condemn 'The Magdalene Sisters' as a pack of lies and that I've made it all up - I wish I was that good a dramatist - and in terms of public relations, that was the daftest thing they ever did. -- Peter Mullan
I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed. -- Alice McDermott
Contrast is the dramatist's method. -- Lord Dunsany
As a dramatist, I don't have politics. -- Oliver Stone
The cat is above all things, a dramatist -- Margaret Benson
The cat is, above all things, a dramatist. -- Margaret Benson
As a dramatist, you're looking for points of friction... -- Aaron Sorkin
It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion -- Edward Bond
Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world. -- Hector Hugh Munro
The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life. -- George Bernard Shaw
Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman. -- James Russell Lowell
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. -- Thornton Wilder
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. -- Kenneth Tynan
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take. -- Henry James
The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours. -- Lee Adams
I'm generally not a social dramatist or comedy writer. My interests have always been more in psychological stories or personal relations and comic ideas. -- Woody Allen
My job as a dramatist is to find out where these characters want to go, and make it as hard as possible for them to get there. -- Peter Hedges
When [actors] are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor. -- Cedric Hardwicke
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers. -- George Jean Nathan
The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment. -- Thornton Wilder
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies. -- Quentin Tarantino
I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean? -- Eugene Ionesco

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