Horton Foote
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr.was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta and two Academy Awards, one for an original screenplay, Tender Mercies, and one for adapted screenplay, To Kill a Mockingbird. In 1995,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 March 1916
CountryUnited States of America
Writing is the thing that props me up.
I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South,
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.