Kent Thompson Quotes

We have to be careful of how we interact, and she gets blamed for all kinds of decisions I make... I think it's easier to blame her than me. - Kent Thompson

To make this season feasible, I've got to go out and raise another $300,000 to $400,000. - Kent Thompson

This is why you hire professionals to do this. - Kent Thompson

The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010. - Kent Thompson

The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth. - Kent Thompson

Part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which. - Kent Thompson

Obviously at first, there were a lot of people who were worried about, 'Am I gonna have a job?' - Kent Thompson

For me the challenge is to make sure the shows are good this year and to not burn out. - Kent Thompson

By the second act, you realize this young man is not going to live... Something visceral happens. I remember you could hear people start crying, and they would cry at different places. There's something about that that's what theater is all about. The audience has bought into the story, into the person, to the degree that it matters what happens next on the stage. It's at the heart of why live theater works in a way that the movies and television can rarely hope to. There's some kind of primal human connection to that kind of storytelling. - Kent Thompson

After I complete my first season. - Kent Thompson

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