Abaire's Quotes

#1. One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Ellen McLaughlin

#2. I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#3. Modern consumer life is a form of extreme passive violence against all people.

Bryant McGill

#4. I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#5. I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#6. From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#7. The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm not being humble - I honestly do not and cannot think about that. It's a lovely piece of crystal on my bookcase, but that's all it is to me.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#8. I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#9. With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#10. Pretty much, the writer's in charge in theater. Of course you're in charge with the director, but no one can change your words. People can give you notes, but you don't have to take them. In Hollywood you take them and you cash your check and that's your job. It's very different.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#11. Only assholes write plays about Nazis.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#12. I have your word?"
"You trust my word?"
"You're an idealistic fool. Of course.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. Lenny's face was smiling, too. For a minute they were both ten years old. Time travel in real life.

Lynne Rae Perkins

#14. I long for typical days, but rarely get them any more.

Nora Roberts

#15. I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make your own luck. But I know people firsthand who worked incredibly hard, who were really smart, who never got into trouble, and still didn't get a break.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#16. My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#17. So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

David Lindsay-Abaire

#18. Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#19. Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#20. For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

Stewart Butterfield

#21. I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist.

David Lindsay-Abaire

#22. I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.

Tate Donovan

#23. I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.

David Lindsay-Abaire