Ayad Akhtar Quotes

Ayad Akhtar — American Actor born on October 28, 1970,

Ayad Akhtar is an Pakistani American actor and writer. He is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama... (wikipedia)

I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.

I don't feel that as an artist my job is to offer PR propaganda, whether for the good or for the bad.

Sooner or later we've all got to confront the reality that we have got to come to understand who we are and what we're doing, and the extent to which we are guided or manipulated by forces that are beyond our control.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.

Ayad Akhtar Quotes

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