Theresa Rebeck Quotes

And dialogue, I'm good at it, and it's because it's the only thing you have to work with in TV writing.

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

If someone said, 'Sit down and write a 'Community' episode,' I would be panicked.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

TV is a writer's medium.

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.

I've continued to write fiction since being in television. TV is a different kind of writing, but it's all writing. It was David Milch of 'Deadwood' who helped me to see it that way. We later collaborated on the short-lived 'John from Cincinnati,' but I'm very proud of the work we did together.

There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

When you're a writer on a show, your job is to write in the show runner's voice, really.

With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.

In television writing, even if you're running the writers room, it's a writers room.

In TV, it's so much more about the writers because they're the ones creating the universe. The writers are the ones who know what's up.

David Milch, twice I got lectures from him about the theory of writing. I told my wife one night when I got home, 'I feel like I'm being paid to sit at the feet of Aristotle.'

I learned how to write TV by writing 'Grey's Anatomy.'

The kind of scripts I have read for web shows have been outstanding.

Honestly, the life of a serial character on television, I'd love to write an essay about it.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

I'm not a playwright.

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.