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People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.
Diablo Cody
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Diablo Cody
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 14
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I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.
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Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.
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Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.
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I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
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I try to avoid Twitter. I occasionally can't resist the siren call of email.
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The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.
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Juno MacGuff: You can never have too many of your favorite one calorie breath mints.
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I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.
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A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.
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You definitely meet a lot of extremely powerful, successful, wealthy people in Hollywood who are extremely miserable.
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When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.
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When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the idea. Inevitably you think of something that would be great and then discover that it was on an episode of The Simpsons.
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It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.
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Juno MacGuff: Wise move. I know this girl who had a huge crazy freakout because she took too many behavioral meds at once. She took off all her clothes and jumped into the fountain at Ridgedale Mall and she was like, Blaaaaah! I'm a kraken from the sea! Su-Chin: That was you.
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I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.
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I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.
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Now '90210' is returning with an all-new cast of slightly more plausible teens. I'll be honest: I wish the old cast was back. Ideally, this spin-off would be an Ice Storm-esque exploration of the West Beverly gang's bleak adult lives.
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I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.
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The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!
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