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" I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology. "

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" Honestly, the thing that I have found to be most useful over a long career, or maintaining a long career, is taking back the power at some point and self-producing. "

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" One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre. "

" In the theater, there's an emphasis on the singular voice. You know, it's your play. And in television, there's so much institutional involvement. So you end up having to negotiate with a lot of people, and that provides a kind of wear and tear on the spirit. "

" I think that because television is shot on a really fast schedule, and it gets piped into your home on a smaller screen, it's much more about character and dialogue in a lot of cases than the movies are. "

" I think new plays are vastly more surprising and challenging and inspiring; I hear from audiences all the time that they are delighted when they see plays about the world we live in now, at this moment. "

" Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much. "

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" My son is a musician who next year will be attending the LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City, which his mother helped him get into by making him practice all the time. "

" I would rather work in the theater than anywhere else, and it does seem to be a place where stories can and should be told purely. "

" Part of the problem with producing contemporary political theater in America today is that many theaters don't have flexibility or resources, be it hiring a lot of actors or staging a work that might be tough for some audience and board members. "

" I have huge admiration for Jesus Christ and for his incredible compassion for all people. "

" I do believe that there are monsters out there - and that they are monsters. "

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" I have two sensational kids who I have raised with my husband, hoping and working every day to help them become healthy, happy, and decent human beings. "

" There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical. "

" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "

" Obviously, a theatrical masterpiece needs more than a plot; many television shows are nothing but plot, and it is doubtful that they will stand the test of time. But I also don't think that making fun of plot or acting like we're all somehow 'above' structure is such a good idea. "

" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "

" I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him. "

" The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show. "

" I seem to be constantly confronted by theater professionals who are more or less annoyed by the prospect of structure. "

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" Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is? "

Theresa Rebeck

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" Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig. "

" The economics of theater are painful. I still think that the theater community should be looking much more rigorously at how to let the playwright keep the money they make. "

" Nothing sounds as crazy as telling people you're not crazy. "

" Some of my family goes back a long way in Denver. "

" The audience just doesn't care. They are just as interested in women-centric stories as they are in stories about men. "

" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "

" Spielberg read the 'Understudy' and decided that was the voice he wanted to write 'Smash.' He wanted a story that had humanity and humor and high-stakes dreams. "

" I think it's straight men who are oblivious to goodness or badness to dates. That's probably unfair. Maybe they just don't complain as much. "

" Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character. "