Quotes by Amy Sherman-Palladino

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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.”

Character

Thinking

What If

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.

Mind

Trying

Writing

If something ain’t working, it ain’t working. You can’t stick with it.

Ifs

Sticks

Working It

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.

Generosity

Kindness

Nice

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

Bows

Wraps

No one in my writers’ room can wear sweatpants.

Rooms

Sweatpants

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.

Car

Christmas

People

The whole world is out of time!

Whole

Whole World

World

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

Hair

Insane

Wind Blowing

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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People

Writing

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Kindness

Knives

Littles

Mind

Mistake

Mother

Mundane

Nice

Paper

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People

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Silly

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Sweatpants

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Two

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Quotes by Amy Sherman-Palladino

Amy Sherman-Palladino

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.”

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.

If something ain’t working, it ain’t working. You can’t stick with it.

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.

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

No one in my writers’ room can wear sweatpants.

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.

The whole world is out of time!

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

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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