Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

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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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  Girl, Silly, Mind

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• I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Drama, Style, Pace

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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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  Coffee, Writing, Sadness

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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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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  Jobs, Writing, Character

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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• To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

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  Crazy, Fighting, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Stress, Coffee, Sleep

  "'Gilmore Girls,' 'Dawson's Creek' Writers Reunions Set for ATX Television Festival" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 13, 2014.

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• Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

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  Bows, Wraps

  "Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Discuss Those Final 4 Words and Whether Stars Hollow Would Vote for Trump". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.vulture.com. December 1, 2016.

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• Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

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  People, Trying, Twists

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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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  Character, Thinking, What If

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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  Pilots, Way, Madly In Love

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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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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  Cutting, Bait, Path

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Winter, Dragons, Flying

  "Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Discuss Those Final 4 Words and Whether Stars Hollow Would Vote for Trump". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.vulture.com. December 1, 2016.

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• TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

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  Territory, Tvs, Speed

  Source: collider.com

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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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  Writing, Mind, Trying

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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• With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.

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  Fun, Writing, Up Early

  "Creator/Showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino Talks BUNHEADS, Casting the Highly Specific Characters, Knowing Her Endgame, Writing Movies and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 4, 2013.

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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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  Knives, Guy, Parent

  "Gilmore Girls' Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino Discuss Those Final 4 Words and Whether Stars Hollow Would Vote for Trump". Interview with Jen Chaney, www.vulture.com. December 1, 2016.

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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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  Thinking, Paper, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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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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  Hair, Wind Blowing, Insane

  "Job Title: The 'Gilmore' Noodge". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. January 23, 2005.

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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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  Kindness, Nice, Generosity

  "'Bunheads' Co-Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino". Interview with Diane Haithman and Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. July 27, 2012.

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• The whole world is out of time!

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  World, Whole, Whole World

  Source: www.vulture.com

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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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  Believe, Fans, Crowds

  "Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Spills on the Future of the Show and More Scoop". Interview with Alyse Whitney, www.glamour.com. June 9, 2015.

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• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

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  Writing, Actors, Want

  "Amy Sherman-Palladino on Bunheads, Gilmore Girls, and not making mediocre TV". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. January 14, 2013.

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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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  Christmas, People, Car

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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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  Two, Voice, People

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. February 9, 2005.

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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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  Thinking, Littles, Fans

  "Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Spills on the Future of the Show and More Scoop". Interview with Alyse Whitney, www.glamour.com. June 9, 2015.

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