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David Henry Hwang

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they’re dead.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He’s never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of thinking. He’s always been much more attracted to American ways of thinking. He feels Americans are more open – they tell you what they think – and he’s very much that way himself.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we’re perpetual foreigners, that we can’t be trusted, and that even my father, who was patriotic to the point that it was kind of a joke among his children, would be accused of being disloyal to America.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

We all deal with failure. If you’re lucky to have a long career, it’s part of the experience.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like ‘Golden Child’ – shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you’ll find at a bigger theatre.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we’re not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn’t put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn’t have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

I’ve studied Chinese in college, but basically, I’m not bilingual.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said ‘Deformed Man’s Toilet,’ that kind of thing.

– David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director – sometimes the producer. I think that’s a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

– David Henry Hwang

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