Jennifer Konner Quotes
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I've worked on sets that were unhappy.
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I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'
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You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect.
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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
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I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
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The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'
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Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.
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When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.
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I'm always shocked by what people react to.
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There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
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We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.
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When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.
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You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'
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We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.
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All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.
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The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.
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Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'
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Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.