I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.
From Theresa Rebeck
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, 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.
Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.
In television, what you are doing is trying to fit your voice into a particular mold.
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.
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.
New York was the Promised Land growing up. Writers were gods! The great gods of American culture... I thought.
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.
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.
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