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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Theresa Rebeck

American

Done

Goal

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion. "

" 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. "

Theresa Rebeck

Phoenix

River

" 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. "

" Theater can be elusive and poetic, but it doesn't thrive when it doesn't reach an audience. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A lot of times, I think people feel that new plays are suspect, and actually, I don't know where that came from. I completely disagree with it! "

" I have always worked consistently, even in small ways and even in smaller theaters where I'll do One Acts or something. "

" I'm not afraid of just cranking it out and seeing what comes out of my subconscious. Because I don't always know what I'm feeling. I do a lot of rewriting later. But that first blast feels like a spigot - like it's coming from somewhere else. "

" 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. "

" I work hard. I like getting to the end of things. And I write my plays that way. "

Theresa Rebeck

Hard

End

" I'm not ashamed of being American; I'm very proud. "

" I have tremendous affection for New York and my life, but I'm a satirist at heart. And it's easy to satirize New York. "

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

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

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

" Watching people toss all caution to the wind, who are ready to put their lives on the line for a dream, is something that is accessible. "