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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Theresa Rebeck

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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. "

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

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

" That stupid postmodern emphasis on image over content has slammed us right into a dramaturgy that willfully leaves the audience behind and then resents the fact that they don't 'get it.' "

" 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. "

" Does art have to have high foot traffic to get funded in a recession? A lot of people, I am sure, would say absolutely not. And those postmodern art-loving loners surely would argue that even if one person likes a piece of art, that would make a museum worthwhile. "

" It's not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be. "

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

" Is the American theatre allowing itself to become irrelevant? The problem isn't that playwrights aren't being paid enough. It's that theatres all over America are looking towards New York to tell them what new plays to do. "

" 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. "

" I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing. "

" You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you. "

" 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? "

" 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 like working with television. I do. "

Theresa Rebeck

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" 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. "

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

" I often find it maddening to live in America, in a way that is both amusing and horrifying to me. America clings to versions of itself that are absolutely hypocritical. I can't shake my outrage at it, so I write about it. "

" 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 a dog whose name is Banquo. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth. "

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

" There's a thing that happens to Midwesterners - we spend a lot of time talking about having a different set of rules about manners. I don't know about ethics, but certainly about manners, what you would say and what you wouldn't say. And that is not very East coast. "