Marti Noxon Quotes
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The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.
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I encourage people and their different points of view.
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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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I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
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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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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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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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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 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 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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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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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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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
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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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On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
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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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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 had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
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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'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.