Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitzis an American playwright, director, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
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It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
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Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
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I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
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I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.
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While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.
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Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.
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My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
My dream is to have a small company in France.
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People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.