You write a play mostly out of yourself. There’s a need to get a certain thing down. – 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
People expect someone with the name ‘Israel Horovitz’ to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah. – 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
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
If work isn’t rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they’ll use it like soap opera. – 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
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
I grew up in Wakefield, Mass., and there were only a couple of Jewish families in the town. – Israel Horovitz
L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you’re doing something cute. – 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
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
