I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
“I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.”
— Stephen Karam · Deeply
The World Motivation
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
“I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.”
— Stephen Karam · Deeply
I don't know how to produce work if it's not something that's deeply scaring me or troubling me.
I think being gay has resulted in gay characters standing front and center in all of my work.
I like going absurd pretty quickly. You don't waste any time when you're doing theater of the ridiculous.
Because I didn't go to graduate school or have mentorship out of college, meeting other playwrights and developing those friendships as a result of being a 'grown up' playwright - that's become an essential community for me. My contemporaries are all my mentors whether they know it or not.
To see professional actors do my work, to take it seriously - that was the thing that made me think playwriting could actually be what I do. It's not a profession that has some sort of clear career track, like, 'This is what you do to be a playwright.'
I'm deeply impatient. If I can't park directly in front of somewhere, I go home.
Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Nixon had this remarkably effective, deeply intense will to power. Reagan and I have a will to ideas.
Survival should be the number one goal, states can have all sorts of goals that are deeply immoral or unethical. But that doesn't mean they're irrational.
I deeply appreciate the people of Michigan. I love their grit. I love the way they face life. I love the family values they have.