José Rivera

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1. 1955 age 0

   Born

2. 2004 age 49

   CreditThe Motorcycle Diariesscreenwriter

3. 2010 age 55

   CreditLetters to Julietscreenwriter

4. 2012 age 57

   CreditOn the Roadscreenwriter

• GSGustavo Santaolalla2 titles
• WSWalter Salles2 titles
• GBGael García Bernal2 titles
• ÉGÉric Gautier2 titles
• CCCarlos Conti2 titles
• FCFrancis Ford Coppola1 title
• AIAngelo Infanti1 title
• RCRoman Coppola1 title
• SBSteve Buscemi1 title
• PDPaul Dillon1 title

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  Photo:Joseph FrancisCC BY-SA 2.0

• …I think the most important thing for me is to give flesh and blood reality to people who are far away and distant from most American concerns. It's very easy to stick to the one-dimensional labels, and my hope is to completely explode the labels and reveal the flesh and blood and soul of each of the women in the play and to really make it impossible to walk away from the play with your prejudices still intact…

  José Rivera (playwright), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have a natural tendency toward theatricality and poetic language...I've never really written realism…and I wanted to give it a shot.

  José Rivera (playwright), CC BY-SA 4.0

• I was lucky…because my grandparents, who lived with us, were illiterate but they were great storytellers, so I got a kind of storytelling bug from them.

  José Rivera (playwright), CC BY-SA 4.0

• …I like “mad realism.” I grew up with a mother who wanted to be a nun and we had pictures of angels all over the house. My grandparents told ghost stories. Seeing magic in the world just felt like how you perceive life. I didn’t know anything about magic realism, really, until I started reading One Hundred Years of Solitude in college and suddenly everything that I grew up with was there on the page — the same love stories, stories of obsession, stories of interacting with spirits…

  José Rivera (playwright), CC BY-SA 4.0