Marti Noxon Quotes
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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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Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
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You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.
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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'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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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
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Scenes on phones are really boring!
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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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I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.
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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 realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.
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I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.
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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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In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not necessarily likable, doing a job that is despicable, and we are not going to be afraid of that.'
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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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I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
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I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
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The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.
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So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.
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You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.
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On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.
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I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.
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A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
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When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.