Marti Noxon Quotes
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I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
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'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.
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One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.
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When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
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Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.
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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
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The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.
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If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.
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I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.
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You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
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A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.
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If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.
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The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.
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I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.
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I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
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My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
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Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.
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On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
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It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.