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Any press is good press.
Scenes on phones are really boring!
Absolutely, love exists in this universe.
You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.
Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.
I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'
Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.
I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.
The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.
The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.
I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.
I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.
I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.
Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies.
Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.
I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.
With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.
I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.
You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.
I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.
I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.
A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.
I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.
You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.
I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.
On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.
You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.
I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''
That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.
I'm so excited to be part of the environment that David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross have built at Skydance.
Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.
The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.
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.
I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
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!
If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.
There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.
My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.
I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.
I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.
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.
Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.