David Ives Quotes

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.
David Ives

Perfect, Three, Songs

I think everything should be in verse. 'The New York Times' should be in verse.
David Ives

Everything, Times, York

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.
David Ives

Small, Sometimes, Print

Necessarily, I'm always involved in casting, as any playwright is, because the whole process of putting on a play is a collaborative, organic effort on the part of a bunch of people trying to think alike.
David Ives

Trying, Play, Whole

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
David Ives

Love, Family, Whether

Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.
David Ives

Great, Writing, Challenge

With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
David Ives

God, Thinking, Down

Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
David Ives

Writing, Play, Start

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: 1950

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