Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitzis an American playwright, director, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
focused people sports tv
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.
life visceral
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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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.
life
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
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If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
running play paris
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.
writing play stories
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
holocaust stories has-beens
The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.
theatre all-time irrelevant
Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
laughing trying one-day
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.
writing play needs
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.