Quotes by Theresa Rebeck

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you cant betray that. And if you dont betray that, it will not betray you.

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.

Its one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if youre younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then youll be happy.

I remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. He was the writer-in-residence, and for those of us who wanted to be writers, you were so excited to be in the same hallway as him.

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