David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwangis a Tony Award-winning American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth11 August 1957
CountryUnited States of America
school guarantees wells
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.
air listening world
This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.
stupid time-flies being-stupid
Time flies when you’re being stupid.
reality differences knowing
Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.
college chinese
Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.
believe thinking want
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself
hate missing sometimes
Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you
reason-why silent reason
There's a reason why the form was originally silent
prisoner our-time
We are all prisoners of our time and place.
religious fall acceptance
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning acceptance. . . . As a playwright, what I object to right now is any form of fundamentalism, whether it's nationalistic, religious or ethnic. . . . I think it is ridiculous - and fundamentalist, by the way - to say that I am not changed by the culture around me.
children memories grandmother
Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.
ideas car theatre
I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.
Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.
men opera roles
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.