Top 15 Kenny Leon Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Kenny Leon Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I love film because you have the last word. I never get

I love film because you have the last word. I never get that on stage because you’ve got to really believe; you’ve got to get the actors to trust you, and they have to believe in you, and then hopefully they will when you open the show.
Kenny Leon
There’s room for Spike Lee’s movies; there’s room for Tyler Perry’s movies. There’s room for classics with an all black cast. There’s room for all of it as long as we don’t try to make any one piece define us as a race.
Kenny Leon
President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.
Kenny Leon
Broadway is the same as Hollywood. Every few years we say we reached the mountaintop, then we take two steps back.
Kenny Leon
I was a political science major. I was always interested in social impact.
Kenny Leon
I think ‘Holler If Ya Hear Me’ is almost ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ 50 years later, with just a different 20-year-old voice speaking the words. But it’s about access to the American dream and equal lives having equal value in America. It’s still holding a mirror up to us so we can see ourselves.
Kenny Leon
I tried to stay off the stage, but you know, I’m an actor; I’m an artist.
Kenny Leon
As an artist, you’re thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn’t happen all the time. Whether you talk about ‘Hamlet’ or ‘Death of a Salesman,’ you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.
Kenny Leon
When I’m acting, I’m just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you’re directing, you… get the vision out of your head and on the stage.
Kenny Leon
I like working with actors who make choices. Whether they get their ideas from me or from themselves, I want them to own all the choices so I can take my hand out of it.
Kenny Leon
When I’m working in television, I’ve learned you’ve got to work fast. You don’t have time to rehearse; you don’t have time to just mess around. You’ve got to move quickly. So I pick that up from that world, and I also pick up the idea of development of character and development of situations.
Kenny Leon
Broadway, in my opinion, is a microcosm of America. Those challenges that we have in our country, I think we still have those challenges on the Broadway stage. I think there are far too few African-American directors working on Broadway.
Kenny Leon
The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them.
Kenny Leon
I’ve directed ‘Raisin in the Sun’ five times. You keep discovering things. You keep on seeing things in the script that you never saw before. That’s what great pieces of art do.
Kenny Leon
I came from the South with a mother who was hard working, so I love going to work every day.
Kenny Leon