Nell Scovell Quotes
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Once, after a long week, I felt so insecure that I decided to make a list of people who thought I was funny even if I didn't think I was. At the top of the list, I wrote, 'Garry Shandling.' His early praise protected me like a comedy-writer version of Harry Potter's scar.
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Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.
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I'm such an admirer of Wendy Davis.
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Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
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Howard Dean is no longer the brilliant mastermind of the Fifty State Strategy that enabled the Democrats to storm the White House and Congress. He's the idiot wearing an ugly sweatshirt.
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An executive producer with an all-male writing staff once inadvertently revealed his deep, dark fear. While discussing a full-time position for me, he mused out loud, 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change everything.' Of course, what he really meant was: 'I wonder if having a woman in the room will change me.'
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Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.
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In March 2010, I attended an art opening for Kimberly Brooks's show 'The Stylist Project' in Los Angeles. It was a starry celebration hosted by Dior and 'Vanity Fair' to benefit P.S. Arts. But even as fun-to-gape-at actresses like Christina Hendricks arrived, I couldn't take my eyes off the oil portraits.
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I turned 40, and things started to go south.
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
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Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
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Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
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Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.
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The vocabulary of my cynical world doesn't allow me to explain the success of 'Lean In.'
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The focus on male politicians extends beyond clothes, legs, and pretty faces. It's hard to find an article about former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich that doesn't mention his mop.
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You don't have to let a bad experience stop you from doing what you want to do.
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I think empathy is undervalued in a lot of these comedy writers' rooms.
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Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
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I have a husband who didn't just resign himself to staying home but was happy to be the primary parent.
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Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world to see.
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I think, in all fields, there's this motherhood pay penalty where, the second you become a mother - and this is true whether you give birth or adopt - you're perceived to not be as committed to your job. Whereas men are perceived as breadwinners who now need more money and promotions because they're fathers.
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I'm on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith - she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
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Studies do show that in hierarchical structures, you do get more harassment. There's more power concentrated at the top, which means there's more abuse of power concentrated at the top. And every TV show is very much a hierarchy.
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There have always been women who were successful against the odds. Now we need to change the odds so more women can be successful.