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" It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "

" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "

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

" We have this powerful ideological basis to the country that I don't think any other country in the world quite can brag about. It's a very complicated nation, and it's very fertile. "

" Show business is a struggle. I certainly wish that I had just blasted on the scene and not had quite such a hard time. But there's a great sense of the relief in that you don't have to prove yourself anymore. "

" 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. "

" Why on earth is the 'New Yorker' publishing puff pieces about pretty girls who go to parties? Does the 'New Yorker' ever run photos of cute boys just because they're cute and they come from money and they go to lots of parties? "

" Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity. "

" 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. "

" We were told that hard work and talent and character would get you somewhere. At school, we learned it was important to share. On Arbor Day, we all planted trees. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy. "

" 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 am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged. "

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

" The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue. "

" Because I'm an American woman, and I write straight plays, it's always been sort of assumed I would never be done on Broadway. But that was never the goal. "

" I let action rise out of character, really. "

" It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly. "

" 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. "

" The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction. "

" I had such a good experience doing 'The Understudy' with the Roundabout, and people were really enthusiastic about the work. "

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

" 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. "