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Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I'm eager to tap into. We're all incredibly excited that he's agreed to help us bring 'To the Bone' to life.
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With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.
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I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.
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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
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We did have 'The Bronze', a very active website on 'Buffy' where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But now it's important to be engaged in the discussion while the show is airing and right after.
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Scenes on phones are really boring!
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I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
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Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
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'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.
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Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'
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On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
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I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
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I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.
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I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.
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I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
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The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.
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When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
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I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
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I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.
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Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.
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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
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That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.
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The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal with real issues of identity and what people are going through and the choice of who you're going to be, but it's all large.
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I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
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A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
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I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
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The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.
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The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.
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The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.
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Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.
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It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.
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I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.
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Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.
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It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.
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You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
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