Nell Scovell Quotes
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My criticisms of late-night TV blew up some old friendships and sparked some new ones.
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Hollywood is built on relationships, and the way you keep relationships is by playing nice.
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Trump Tower is no ordinary property: It is the jewel in Donald Trump's brass crown.
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I was the second female writer ever hired at 'Late Night.' When I applied for the job in 1988, I had no way of knowing how much the odds were stacked against me.
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Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.
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Hated 'The Imitation Game.' Totally inaccurate. A gay man with a messy room? Don't buy it.
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Give me a rock, and I will roll it.
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Feminists cried, 'Sexism!' when New York Senator Hillary Clinton was judged not by the content of her character but by the color of her pantsuits.
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The creative process is often wrapped up in bottomless anxiety, and when the world applauds the product of that process, it soothes the anxiety. Briefly. Then the anxiety returns and even intensifies.
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If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
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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 turned 40, and things started to go south.
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In the writers' room, I know the difference when someone brushes up against me and makes a sexist crack and when they've stepped over the line and made me feel uncomfortable and unsafe.
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Given the long history of global anti-Semitism and continued calls for the destruction of Israel, it's tough to be a Jew.
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Even when powerful men stumble, they inspire fear.
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For me, TV had always been a medium for entertainment.
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Male writers don't want to be judged in the room. They want to be able to scarf an entire bag of potato chips while cracking fart jokes and making lewd comments without fear of feminine disapproval. But we're your co-workers, not your wives.
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The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.
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The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior.
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Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early '90s, went mainstream in the mid-'90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997.
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If I were to write a sequel to 'Lean In' for men, I would call it 'Make Room.'
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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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Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'
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I'd like to see David Letterman adopt the inclusion rider on his Netflix show.