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" 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. "

Theresa Rebeck

Looking

Community

Money

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Who

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Theresa Rebeck

Myself

Think

" I actually think we should be trying to be rigorous in our thinking about television and the way it enters our lives and shapes the way so many people think. "

" 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. "

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Phoenix

River

" 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. "

" Why is being a female having an agenda any more than being a misogynist - which David Mamet most certainly is? "

Theresa Rebeck

Why

Agenda

" 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. "

" The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show. "

" 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. "

" 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 like working with television. I do. "

Theresa Rebeck

Working

Television

" When I was a staff writer on 'NYPD Blue,' it was truly my job to hear David Milch's voice for that show and to deliver episodes that embodied that voice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have spent my whole life working in the theater, and most of the people I know have done the same. And we are pretty interesting people. "

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