Marti Noxon Quotes
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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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When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.
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I encourage people and their different points of view.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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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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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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When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I felt like maybe we wouldn't find a home for it because it's unlike anything else that I've done.
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'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.
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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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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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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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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 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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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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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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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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Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
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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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On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
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You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.
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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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The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.