A biography for Eric Bogosianhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.”
“I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.”
“I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.”
“The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well.”
“I write, but I also act.”
“If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.”
“I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.”
“Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.”
“I love playing other people's work. I love acting.”
“As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.”
“If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.”
“I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.”
“It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material.”
“I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.”
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.”
“I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.”
“I'm very underground.”
“I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.”
“It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off”
“I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.”