Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrence
Jerome Lawrencewas an American playwright and author. After graduating from Ohio State University in 1937 and the University of California, Los Angeles in 1939, Lawrence partnered with Robert Edwin Lee to help create Armed Forces Radio. The two built a partnership over their lifetimes, and continued to collaborate on screenplays and musicals until Lee's death in 1994...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth14 July 1915
CountryUnited States of America
play hell stealing
Thou shalt not steal the shekels of thine audience with a play which doth not let them know what the hell goeth on.
play musical cartoon
If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.
war writing wind
The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.
men snakes ideas
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to snakes or the parting of the waters.
inherit-the-wind standing-still stills
All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.
blessing play boredom
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.
opinion
Don't have any opinions. They're bad for business.
emptiness inherit-the-wind overzealous
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
hate people cynical
Cynical? Thats my fascination. I do hateful things, for which people love me, And lovable things for which they hate me. I am a friend of enemies, the enemy of friends; I am admired for my detestability. I am both Poles and the Equator, with no Temperate Zones between.
law wicked prison
I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches - its upholders as well as its defiers.
television demand peers
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
men apes inherit-the-wind
Darwin was wrong. Man's still an ape
wind play musical
In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.
writing helping
All experience helps when you write.