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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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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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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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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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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'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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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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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 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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I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.
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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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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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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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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 encourage people and their different points of view.
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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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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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I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.
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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 was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
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I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
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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 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'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.
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