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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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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Amy Sherman-Palladino
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: January 17
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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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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.
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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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I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.
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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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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
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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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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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