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Richard Greenberg


American
February 22, 1958
Playwright
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I like the Mets. I'm interested in the Mets.


Richard Greenberg
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.
Richard Greenberg
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I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
Richard Greenberg
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My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
Richard Greenberg
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I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
Richard Greenberg
I'm sort of anti-Aristotelian. I want to get an entire life onstage while conveying a sense of how time feels, how unstoppable it is, and how we don't really know what's going on because as we're trying to weave, it's weaving us.
Richard Greenberg
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When you're writing plays, it's possible to believe you don't have any real world skill. When you're adapting, it is really all about the mechanics, so you feel closer to, I don't know, an accountant or someone who has a body of information. It's not all about temperament.
Richard Greenberg
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I don't write a play from beginning to end. I don't write an outline. I write scenes and moments as they occur to me. And I still write on a typewriter. It's not all in ether. It's on pages. I sequence them in a way that tends to make sense. Then I write what's missing, and that's my first draft.
Richard Greenberg
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