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" 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. "
Theresa Rebeck
Big
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People
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" I have admiration for people who can do it well - the guys who wrote 'Cheers' and 'Frasier.' They created sort of a blissful comedic universe. "
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" I find a lot of input from other people very stressful. "
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" Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences. "
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" I think we have a cultural difficulty with looking at our problems. "
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" There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I let action rise out of character, really. "
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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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" I have a dog whose name is Banquo. "
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Whose
Name
" Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth? "
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" New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought. "
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" 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. "
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" The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America. "
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Workplace
America
Excellence
" 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. "
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Superior
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like to write. Prolific is part of who I am. "
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" Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it. "
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" Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American theater. That's something embraced by 'Smash.' We should be telling our own stories. "
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" 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. "
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" Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is? "
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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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" 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. "
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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. "
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