Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitzis an American playwright, director, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
life visceral
I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.
act alive art audience couple disbelief form love lovely room time wonderful
Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
coming florida great people unusual work
It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.
focused people sports tv
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.
love-you acceptance want
You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.
actors invention theater
Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.
dream character writing
Plays are literature: the word, the idea. Film is much more like the form in which we dream - in action and images (Television is furniture). I think a great play can only be a play. It fits the stage better than it fits the screen. Some stories insist on being film, can't be contained on stage. In the end, all writing serves to answer the same question: Why are we alive? And the form the question takes - play, film, novel - is dictated, I suppose, by whether its story is driven by character or place.
beach art writing
Lou Tyrrell has created a theatre that is a safe haven for playwrights, a birthing center for new American writing. Arts Garage has created a vital, enthusiastic audience for theatre, music, painting and sculpture in Delray Beach.
writing play needs
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play.
laughing trying one-day
While directing in theater that the actors will - I don't know if it's competitiveness or what it is, but they love to make each other laugh. They love to impress each other in rehearsal. They'll try something for a reaction. But in film, you're very often not all together in the room at the same time. You're shooting one day, somebody else is shooting the next. It's a totally different dynamic.
theatre all-time irrelevant
Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
holocaust stories has-beens
The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.
play direct
I don't direct the plays of others.