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David Ives quotes

American Playwright

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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships. David Ives
David Ives quote: "With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience..."
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.' David Ives
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. David Ives
David Ives quote: "I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times'..."
I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse. David Ives
Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike. David Ives
David Ives quote: "I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes."
I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes. David Ives
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well. David Ives
David Ives quote: "Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and..."
Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small. David Ives

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