Words matter. These are the best Israel Horovitz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you’re doing something cute.
I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.
Gloucester’s not some chi-chi tourist town. It’s a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.
It’s not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I’m not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
I’ve always been a fighter – it’s always been a part of my personality.
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they’re really New York films because they’re like travelogues.
I was not to the manor born.
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.
Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
My dream is to have a small company in France.
France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film – anything – unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
I have seen dozens upon dozens of productions of ‘Lebensraum’ in dozens of languages around the globe.
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
It’s one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you’re not in good shape and can’t do anything about it.
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There’s a need to get a certain thing down.
I am an internationally produced playwright.
I don’t direct the plays of others.
Radical politics tend to be simple minded.
I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
I write because I don’t know how to ask my questions any other way.
The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.
Theatre’s great. It’s such an act of faith. It’s a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It’s a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That’s why I love the theatre.
