Thu
31st
31st
Dec
2009
2009
In grad school, I was too cool to learn craft. I said I wanted to be experimental. The problem with that thinking is that if you don’t know the craft, if you don’t know the form, with what are you experimenting? It took me a long time to learn that “experimental,” in my case, was a synonym for “childishness,” and for not wanting to do the work. Then I got out of school and realized that the stakes had never been higher: Learn the craft, or get a real job.
— Graham Gordy (p. 102) in “Why We Like Drama: A simple story well told.” As published in one of my new favorite magazine, Oxford American, Fall 2009 issue on pages 100-105.
