Phyllis Nagy Quotes


When I was a kid in a small private school on Long Island and this event occurred, we were all fascinated. For years, I've been wondering what to do with the material. I think it should be an opera. They're all so operatic and passionate in their personalities. - Phyllis Nagy



The pace is especially important in this, when it isn't so much a whodunit. We had to find a way to structurally keep shifting the focus, where you think you know something but you see that you don't. - Phyllis Nagy



That is the way I write. Everything I write is about very serious things, but handled in a sort of idiosyncratic manner. - Phyllis Nagy



She maintains that sort of distance, and I think that's the kind of distance one needs to walk that line with that humor. So the script is informed on every level by it. - Phyllis Nagy