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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.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 17
Dancer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Television Writer
LA
California
Amy Palladino
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Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
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If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
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It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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The whole world is out of time!
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I think you can't go into any story-breaking process thinking, 'What if they come off as unlikeable?' You just gotta break the story because if you know who your character is, the story will tell you. The story will dictate and say, This feels off-kilter for this particular person.
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The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.
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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.
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Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.
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If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.
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To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
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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.
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], This is how it works on this show. It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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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.
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Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance my mother was a dancer.
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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.
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
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The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
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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.
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