Peter Sellars: Self - Interviewee

Quotes 

• Self - Interviewee : [opera, film, theater, and festival director Peter Sellars, in a segment titled, 'Shakespeare']  I said to Toni, 'You know, we all love Shakespeare, but there's one really bad Shakespeare play, and that's called "Othello". It's embarrassing; you can tell that the guy didn't have any black friends... . There's not one thing that feels real... fake, fake, fake'. Toni just *called me out* and said, 'That's enough'. She spent the next four hours telling me that it was one of the greatest things ever written in the history of literature.

  Self - Interviewee : [hard cut to interview segment with Toni Morrison]  I said, 'What are you talking about? It's fascinating!' I said, 'Are you trying to tell me that a woman running away during those days, to marry what was a *black man* and be in his *war* is not interesting to you?'

  [laughs]