Marti Noxon Quotes
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I encourage people and their different points of view.
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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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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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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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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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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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Any press is good press.
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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 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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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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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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You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
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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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On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
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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 the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
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Scenes on phones are really boring!