Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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• This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Writing
  • Business

• Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Way
  • Written

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Feeling

• The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Long
  • Girl
  • Air

• It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Film
  • Hard
  • Made

• Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Girl

• Gilmore Girls was the highlight of my ridiculous life. I can't wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama's little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Believe
  • Should
  • Fans

• You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Path
  • Cutting

• These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Hair
  • Wind

• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Kind
  • Car

• The whole world is out of time!

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Time
  • World
  • Whole

• I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Comedy
  • Style
  • Drama

• I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Protect

• With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Fun

• I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Attention

• No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Rooms
  • Sweatpants

• Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Life
  • Up
  • Bows

• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Want

• When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Character

• The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Speed
  • Territory
  • Tvs