Latest Wallace Shawn Quotes from Interviews

• All of my plays have puzzled some people, and I'm happy to say delighted a few, but a lot of people have just not seen how quite to look at them. And this film... if you like my writing, you'll like this film. If you don't, you won't like the film. It's pretty faithful to - it's a pretty uncompromising presentation of my way of seeing things, I suppose.

  Wallace Shawn

  Writing, People, Faithful

  Fuente: film.avclub.com

• I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I was a young boy, I suspected that there were passions seething underneath and not being mentioned, and that was something that came to preoccupy me. Somehow I had some drive to write down what people might really be thinking.

  Wallace Shawn

  Passion, Writing, Boys

  Fuente: film.avclub.com

• I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. The way I write is about life and is quite truthful, and there is a kind of brutal side to the relationship, and to the feelings, that makes it somewhat painful, but I think it's a very intense portrait of the relationship of two people. And a bit about what people feel like when they're alone, because it all takes place in one day, and during the day, they spend a lot of time alone in their different - you get to imagine what their fantasy lives are like.

  Wallace Shawn

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Fuente: film.avclub.com

• You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.

  Wallace Shawn

  Fighting, Reality, Play

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2009.

• I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.

  Wallace Shawn

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 1, 2009.

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