Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

Moliere and Arthur Miller affected me at a very young age. In adulthood, I became overwhelmed by Chekhov. Those are my big theatrical influences.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

I think, with most writers, their neurosis is finishing things. I have a different neurosis. I'm terribly anxious when it's not finished. Then I become really difficult to live with.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

I let action rise out of character, really.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

One thing I won't do in television is a sitcom. I find that world to be so neurotic and bizarre.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

I like working with television. I do.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

There are times when I wonder how I ever thought that I could dramatize the death of a national discussion as a family comedy.

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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

Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck

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.