The play has taken on a greater height of spirituality. He didn't make it. That was a painful thing, but it feels absolutely right that we are here. His family is here. His people are here. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 1
I never think about putting my stamp on anything, ... If someone watches a play and they don't see the hand of the director in it, if it's seamless and seems effortless, then I will have achieved what I'm after. I want folks to sit and hear August's music. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
Absolutely, ... but he'd have to be totally committed and shut down the businesses. He couldn't do anything else. He'd have to say, 'For these five or six months, I have to be about looking at and studying August's work.' It would definitely take some work, but I think he could do it. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
In casting somebody like Puffy and having him bring in all his fans, you get the people in the hip-hop generation to see the play. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
It's the ultimate universally engaging play, ... It was important to have 20-year-olds and 80-year-olds in the audience, to have blacks and whites in the audience. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
To try talking about my relationship with August and the contributions of that man, I get very emotional just thinking about it. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
We've lost a great writer, I think the greatest writer that our generation has seen and I've lost a dear, dear friend and collaborator. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
encompasses all the strength and power that theater has to offer. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
He's my hero because he's not only the anchor of my career, he's my growth as a man. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0
I feel a huge responsibility to finish what he [August Wilson] started, in the way he would have finished it. Kenny Leon More Kenny Leon Quotes 0