Horton Foote
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr.was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay, Tender Mercies, and one for adapted screenplay, To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1995,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 March 1916
CountryUnited States of America
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes the difference? What is it?' I've known people the world has thrown everything at - to discourage them, to kill them, to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and they don't ask quarters.
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to working.
In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I can.
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.