Marti Noxon Quotes
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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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I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
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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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I encourage people and their different points of view.
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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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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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I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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 the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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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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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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You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.
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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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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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Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.