Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitzis an American playwright, director, and actor...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth31 March 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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.
writing play stories
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
What Lou Tyrrell creates when he has a theater is a birthing center for new plays.
carrying man people
People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
My dream is to have a small company in France.
films says york
My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.
people rooted soap work
If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.
life
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
huge instantly plays radical vaguely
I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.
grew
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.
Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
age body frightened good shape street terrors
It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.