Marti Noxon Quotes
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Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I'm eager to tap into. We're all incredibly excited that he's agreed to help us bring 'To the Bone' to life.
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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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Any press is good press.
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Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'
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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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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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There's no shape or body type that makes you more happy or more lovable. It's the body you're comfortable in that makes you happier and more lovable. I look around and see how women and men of all types find the love and the life they want.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.
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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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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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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.
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There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.
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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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You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
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I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.
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'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.
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You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
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I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.