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The whole world is out of time!
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Whole
Whole World
World
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Well, I have no time for therapy.
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Therapy
No Time
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No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
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Rooms
Sweatpants
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The dance world was a big part of my growing up.
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Growing
Growing Up
World
Big Part
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Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.
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Bows
Wraps
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As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
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Actors
Want
Writing
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If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
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Ifs
Sticks
Working It
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TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
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Speed
Territory
Tvs
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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
Creative
Fighting
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I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
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Mundane
Television
Thinking
Dreadful
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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
Crowds
Fans
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It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
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Film
Made
Tough
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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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Madly In Love
Pilots
Way
Love Work Way
Deeply
Madly
Pilot
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Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
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Dancer
Mother
Theater
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I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.
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Car
Hello
Neighbor
Parent
Car Me Parents
Literally
Shove
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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.
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Drama
Pace
Rhythm
Style
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.
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Girl
Mistake
Thinking
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I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'
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Gilmore Girls
Mistake
Actively
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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
Insane
Wind Blowing
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With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
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Running
Everyday
Judging
People
Scripts
Sitcom
Nightly
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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
Character
Writing
Voices
Yours
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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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Christmas
Smile
Car
Big Cars
Nannies
People
Ruthless
Stakes
People Big Go
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Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
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Ballet
Class
Mother
Years
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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
Sadness
Writing
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The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.
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Girl
Air
Gilmore Girls
Rhythm
Voice
Specific
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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
Generosity
Holy
Nice
Nice Guy
Ruled
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The way television works is that directors come in and out, and they're not there all the time, following every character through every scene. They're vagabonds who go from one show to another.
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Character
Directors
Vagabonds
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It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
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Friendly
Work Out
Writing
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This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
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Easy
People
Writing
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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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Bait
Cutting
Path
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I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
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Feelings
Growing Up
Thinking
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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
Up Early
Writing
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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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Guy
Knives
Parent
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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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Choices
Clean
People
Sitcom
Two
Voice
Charge
Faith Work People
Committee
Network
One Or Two
Voices
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I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
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Attention
Attention Span
Dark
Holes
Sadness
Facebook
Frankly
Span
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I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
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Beautiful
Believe
Thinking
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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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Direct
Paper
Thinking
Way
Work Yourself Your
Work Yourself Way
Ensure
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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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Mind
Trying
Writing
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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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Fans
Littles
Thinking
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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
Mind
Silly
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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
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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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Coffee
Sleep
Stress
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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.
Amy Sherman-Palladino / Television Writer
Detrimental
People
Poisonous
Trying
Twists
Life Family Your
Life Family People
Achieving
Grab
Twist
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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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Dragons
Flying
Winter
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