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After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightLife , Work , Change , Success
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theater's Lab - a 40 seat black box theater in Evanston, Illinois - back when I was getting started. I was just 25 and I had been acting for awhile, but it was my first play and the one that really got me noticed, especially by Steppenwolf.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightMe , Back , Black , Acting
I try to write fun - though difficult and challenging - things for actors to do, because I know if they're having fun, they're going to give it everything they got.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightKnow , Fun , Try , Having Fun
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightYou , Work , Play , Hard
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightWant , Just , Movies , Show
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightPeople , Wind , Think , Some People
In theater, the playwright is the boss, period. The decisions will go through him or her. In movies, the writer is pretty far down on the list.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightWill , Movies , Down , Boss
I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightGreat , Community , Hot , Small
It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightAlways , Action , Moving , Pictures
'Killer Joe' provides a lot of red meat for the theater. Pam MacKinnon is the perfect director to shepherd a group of actors who share a certain bloodlust.
Author: Tracy Letts - American PlaywrightGroup , Red , Perfect , Meat
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