Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

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.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

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.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I parle Francais like a Spanish cow.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I've always been a fighter - it's always been a part of my personality.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

My agent in London says all New York films are wonderful if they're really New York films because they're like travelogues.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

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.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I am an internationally produced playwright.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

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.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I'm really into the irony of writing vaguely radical plays that instantly win huge establishment awards. It's really amusing.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way.

Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz

Radical politics tend to be simple minded.