Tracy Letts

Playwright

1965-07-04

Quotes by Tracy Letts

• My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

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• Time wounds all heals.

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• Time wounds all heals.

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• My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

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• 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.

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• The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.

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• When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to say, 'You're a bum and you can't write. This stinks.' and throw the script in the garbage. The great hope is that they're all going to lift me up on their shoulders and carry me to the streets, singing, 'He's a genius, he's a genius!'

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• 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.'

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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.

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