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" I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior. "

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" I find a lot of input from other people very stressful. "

" When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice. "

" 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 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. "

" In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold. "

" 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. "

" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "

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

" Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover. "

" 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. "

" Theater is a public space. It is a spectacular space. It is a gathering place. "

" I think it goes without saying that young would-be playwrights in developmental workshops should be so lucky as to write plays as good as 'Waiting for Godot,' 'Uncle Vanya' or 'King Lear,' none of which would have existed without a decent plot. "

" 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 have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

" 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. "

" I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" I write a lot because, if I don't, I start to panic, and I calm down when I write. "

" We need theatre that is contemporary, lively and relevant, and the only way to do that is to take care of our playwrights and produce their plays. "

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

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

" Our distorted media culture sees men as subjects and women as objects; in films, Woody Allen gets older and older and still dates 20-year-old babes; movies about women are called 'chick flicks,' and men make fun of them. "

" When people tell me I'm a prolific writer, it's a nice thing to say. But I think to myself, 'Yeah, but I don't do anything else.' "

" I'm an impatient person. "

" Not so long ago, my feminist education taught me to ask the question, 'Is the gaze male?' The answer, apparently, is yes, which is why so many movies and television shows are about men and not women. "