"Smashing things together. Because, culturally, that’s America at its most interesting. It’s things connected, awkwardly, that produce the brilliance. It’s not absoluteness that produces the brilliance; it’s when things that don’t belong together collide, and in that collision, something springs forth, and that becomes extraordinarily fascinating to me."
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On how he explores the revue as a playwriting form in “GEORGE C. WOLFE” in Interview Magazine (2016 May 9)
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