Richard Greenberg Quotes

Richard Greenberg — American Playwright born on February 22, 1958,

Richard Greenberg is an American playwright and television writer known for his subversively humorous depictions of middle-class American life. He has had more than 25 plays premiere on and off-broadway in New York City and eight at Los Angeles' South Coast Repertory Theatre, including The Violet Hour, Everett Beekin, and Hurrah at Last... (wikipedia)

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.

I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.