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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

~Beau Willimon

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In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.

~Beau Willimon

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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

~Beau Willimon

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Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.

~Beau Willimon

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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.

~Beau Willimon

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The fact that slavery is written into the Constitution is about as entrenched a form of classism as you could possibly imagine.

~Beau Willimon

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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

~Beau Willimon

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The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

~Beau Willimon

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In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.

~Beau Willimon

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I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.

~Beau Willimon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: Unknown

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