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No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 17
Dancer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Producer
Television Writer
LA
California
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I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
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I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
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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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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.
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If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
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Writing is a sad process, sitting on your ass for many, many hours, alone in a room, smelling like coffee, sadness and bitterness, and watching your youth leave.
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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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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
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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.
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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 can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.
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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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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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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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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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I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons and, you know, like the sun disappearing from the world. Winter is coming. It would have been so expensive the way we would have needed to do it, had we known that the apocalypse was coming.
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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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