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Letter "K" » Kenny Leon Quotes
«I never think about putting my stamp on anything, ... If someone watches a play and they don't see the hand of the director in it, if it's seamless and seems effortless, then I will have achieved what I'm after. I want folks to sit and hear August's music.»
Author: Kenny Leon
«By the end of the run, people were talking about the play, ... A young generation of people came to that play expecting to see Puffy or Clair Huxtable. When it was over, people were saying, 'Who is Lorraine Hansberry? I want to read her. I want to know who she is.'»
Author: Kenny Leon
«Absolutely, ... but he'd have to be totally committed and shut down the businesses. He couldn't do anything else. He'd have to say, 'For these five or six months, I have to be about looking at and studying August's work.' It would definitely take some work, but I think he could do it.»
Author: Kenny Leon
«I love the feeling of the gathering,»
Author: Kenny Leon
«When you have a chance to work on something that's live and the audience is breathing the same air as the performers, it makes the work seem more immediate and more alive than if we were watching it through a screen or a filter or a box. I love that.»
Author: Kenny Leon
«In casting somebody like Puffy and having him bring in all his fans, you get the people in the hip-hop generation to see the play,»
Author: Kenny Leon
«It's the ultimate universally engaging play, ... It was important to have 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds in the audience, to have blacks and whites in the audience.»
Author: Kenny Leon
«To try talking about my relationship with August and the contributions of that man, I get very emotional just thinking about it,»
Author: Kenny Leon
«August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.»
Author: Kenny Leon
«I'm from the South and I really studied Tennessee Williams, ... I love plays that are poetry-based, but last year, when all those Williams plays went to Broadway ('A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie'), it didn't occur to producers to ask me if I was interested.»
Author: Kenny Leon
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