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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I go to museums. I buy art, even. You should see my house; we don't have any wall space left. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In America, the average playwright makes less than a receptionist in a non-profit theatre. We don't have decent health insurance - or any health insurance at all. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a dog whose name is Banquo. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere. "

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

" 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. "

" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "