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I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
Directing is a unique endeavor where you are in charge of so many people. As a writer, it is sort of the opposite.
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.
Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.
To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.
Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.
One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other.
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.
We've always been a band who's taken forever to do things. After writing 'Persona' I think we wrote about four songs in three years!
Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.
Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.
I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
We've always idealized youth and then destroyed youth. That has happened since the beginning of time, and I'm fascinated by why we do that.
In a weird way, it's much easier, when I don't have to worry about being a writer, to just worry about the director job, which is really fun.
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
I think audiences crave something new. I don't think audiences want the same old thing, no matter how much conventional Hollywood tells you that.
I do feel there's certainly some films where you can feel that the directors don't care about the genre and they don't care about their characters.
Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.
Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
Some of our best episodes of 'Buffy' were written over a weekend. You can really get in touch with your creative spirit when you're at your most desperate.
I love TV. I've been lucky that I get to do both, and both have things I love about them, features and TV. I hope I get to do both for the rest of my career.
When you're talking about who is doing the most exciting and interesting horror films of the last 20 years, it's Japan. I mean, they are making amazing films.
The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that.
Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.
There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'
I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.
When you are dealing with something that's crazy, you still want actors to play characters and find the reality of the situation, no matter how absurd the situation is.
I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched 'Alien' at, like, 6. It was traumatizing.
I think 'The Thing' is so good because it's not just a scary movie. It's also social commentary, which works on multiple levels, which is something I really respond to.
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
Certainly, 3rd acts of any movie are hard. It's always hard to have something that will give you the promises from the beginning of the movie. That's true for all movies.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.
Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.
I just don't want to make the same old movies. I'm not interested in it. Directing's hard. It takes up a lot of your life, and I'm not that interested in making the same old film.
What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that sparks an idea or suggests something strange.
The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to others to have doubts about you.
I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tremendous amount of money at stake.
I love superheroes and I love weird horror films... I could definitely feel that there was a lack of movies like The Martian being made: smart genre movies that can appeal to adults.
What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
I understand why offices need to have office parties. I understand why offices need to have betting pools. No matter what the job, you need things to foster camaraderie and let off steam.
I love going to horror movies - especially when they are fun. I think that they get you in touch with sort of these primal instincts that we all have in the relative safety of the theater.
We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.