I have to confess that I'm not a big movie person. I don't go to a lot of films. And I don't know very much about the history of stage-to-film adaptations.
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The end to the measure and meaning of my life.August Wilson
Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he announced that he was dying of liver cancer, with three to five months to live. He disclosed it with the type of plainspoken grit one of his heroic characters might admire. I've lived a blessed life, ... I'm ready.
August Wilson
The way I see it, the stage tells the story for the ear, and the screen for the eye... On stage, you can't really control where the viewer's eye goes there's a whole stage picture there, and the viewer can be looking anywhere. But with the camera, if you want the viewer to look at something in particular, you can put their eye there.
August Wilson
There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the black experience in America.
August Wilson
She's just using him to keep from being by herself. That's the worst use of a man you can have.
August Wilson
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