Jerome Lawrence Quotes

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.

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.

All Experience Helps When You Write.

Thou Shalt Not Steal The Shekels Of Thine Audience With A Play Which Doth Not Let Them Know What The Hell Goeth On.

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.

An Idea Is A Greater Monument Than A Cathedral. And The Advance Of Man's Knowledge Is More Of A Miracle Than Any Sticks Turned To Snakes, Or The Parting Of Waters!

Don't Have Any Opinions. They're Bad For Business.

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.

The Whole Point Of Writing Is To Have Something In Your Gut Or In Your Soul Or In Your Mind That's Burning To Be Written.

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.

I Think Enthusiasm Is The Answer To Passionate Writing.

Is It Possible To Be Overzealous, To Destroy That Which You Hope To Save-so That Nothing Is Left But Emptiness.