Annie Baker Quotes

• I'm very interested in silence. And, more importantly, in what happens when people aren't talking on stage. I'm interested in letting actors play and do things between the lines. And in slowing everything down.

  Annie Baker

  Talking, Play, People

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• I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.

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  People, Imperfection, Succeed

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• Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wondering if you shouldn't have quit the shitty job and then getting a new shitty job that you get fired off of after six weeks, it's all so good for your writing.

  Annie Baker

  Breakup, Jobs, Writing

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• Film can express things that computers never will. Film is a series of photographs separated by split seconds of darkness. Film is light and shadow.

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  Luz, oscuridad, sombra

  Annie Baker (2014). “The Flick”, p.140, Theatre Communications Group

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• I feel with writing, so much of the time, I don't know how to tap in and be spontaneous and alive on a daily basis. So I don't write every day. I'm just not disciplined, and I can't be in the groove most of the time. I feel like I'm in the groove ten days a year or something. But with reading and research, I feel like I have this incredibly instinctive pleasure-driven process that ends up working out for me and inspiring me. It's almost like a maze, like I know eventually I'll hit the heart of my play if I read enough books.

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  Libro, Lectura, Escritura

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• I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose - and maybe great prose writers don't feel this way - but I always felt it was about choosing words. I was always like, "I have to choose the perfect word." And then it would kill me, and I would choose the wrong word or I would choose too many perfect words - I wrote really purple prose.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Kids, Purple

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• Para mí, en cada proyecto me doy cuenta de que me he arrinconado o de que la obra necesita algún tipo de convención teatral que me doy cuenta de que odio mientras la estoy haciendo. Así que la siguiente obra es siempre una rebelión. Lo que no me di cuenta de que estaba haciendo la última vez, me aseguraré de no hacerlo esta vez. Pero siempre hay algún otro punto ciego. Y entonces ese punto ciego inspira la obra que viene después.

  Annie Baker

  Hate, Play, Blind Spots

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• For early plays of mine, I started with character. But I think that's because I hadn't been in theaters; I hadn't worked that much. I'm very interested in character, obviously, but once I started having my plays produced, I became so fascinated by the theatrical experiment and the weirdness of theatrical space, so now all my plays start with space and stage picture and setting - or container is maybe the better way to put it.

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  Carácter, Pensamiento, Juego

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• I never had a lot of ideas. I always have exactly one that is the next project; the idea of a project beyond that project is ludicrous.

  Annie Baker

  Ideas, Next, Projects

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• I think growing up in a small town, the kind of people I met in my small town, they still haunt me. I find myself writing about them over and over again.

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  Crecer, Escribir, Pensar

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• I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

  Annie Baker

  Morning, Kids, Self

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• Si fuera menos perezoso, cuando se publicara mi obra, iría y lo reescribiría todo para el lector. Pero no lo hago. Lo que la gente lee soy yo intentando que los actores y directores hagan algo o piensen en algo.

  Annie Baker

  Reading, Thinking, Play

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• I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.

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  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• Me crió una madre psicóloga soltera y nos pasábamos todas las tardes sentados a la mesa de la cocina diseccionando nuestras emociones y especulando sobre la vida interior de todos nuestros conocidos.

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  Mother, Kitchen, Sitting

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• I feel like my life is at its happiest when I don't have a looming deadline. There's some really groovy wonderful times, when I'm like, "I have a new piece, I'm excited about it, I'm reading all these books about it, but there's not a lot of time pressure, and I'm financially stable enough right now that I don't have to be trying to get another job." But that's so rare.

  Annie Baker

  Jobs, Book, Reading

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• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

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  Writing, Play, Personality

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• If I think back to every rehearsal process for every play I've ever worked on, there's just so much crying at home. I barely sleep. There are moments of deep despair and anxiety, and then there are moments in rehearsal that are the most exhilarating; feeling seen and seeing everybody. Feeling like you have a purpose on the planet. A huge part of the process I enjoy is watching the actors figuring out what they can handle and what they can take and what they need from the director and me.

  Annie Baker

  Sleep, Home, Thinking

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• There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

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  Character, Play, Would Be

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• For me, being a good creative writing teacher is actually kind of being a good therapist. The line is very porous - you can also be a creepy guru/abusive therapist, too, so you have to be very careful. But it feels really important to me.

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  Teacher, Writing, Creative

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• I don't enjoy hearing the sound of my voice. The most important things for me are impossible to articulate extemporaneously.

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  Voice, Important, Hearing

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• I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

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  Tongue, Terrible, Tied

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• If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.

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  College, Thinking, Opposites

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• Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

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  Writing, Way, Primaries

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• I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.

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  Writing, College, Play

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