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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.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 17
Dancer
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Television Producer
Television Writer
LA
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Amy Palladino
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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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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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If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
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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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With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
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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.
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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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You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
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These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.
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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.
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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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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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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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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
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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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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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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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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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