Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosian
Eric Bogosianis an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist and historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 April 1953
CityWoburn, MA
CountryUnited States of America
dirt hitting forgotten
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
pissed-off duty humans
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
play radio film
I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.
fake-people believe forget
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.
years approach ifs
If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
hips
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
writing
I write, but I also act.
writing thinking people
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.
ensemble chess hard
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
writing past people
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
writing play acting
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
idealistic seventeen knows
I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.
bricks-and-mortar house actors
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
perspective guy becoming
From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.