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. Amy Sherman-Palladino More Quotes by Amy Sherman-Palladino More Quotes From Amy Sherman-Palladino With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly. Amy Sherman-Palladino judging running people No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants. Amy Sherman-Palladino sweatpants rooms 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino voice two people 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino voice girl air 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino generosity nice kindness 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 paper way thinking 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino sadness dark attention 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino dragons flying winter 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino mother class years The dance world was a big part of my growing up. Amy Sherman-Palladino growing growing-up world I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. Amy Sherman-Palladino mundane television thinking 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino vagabonds character directors 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 car christmas people I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things. Amy Sherman-Palladino crowds fans believe TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory. Amy Sherman-Palladino territory speed tvs Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater. Amy Sherman-Palladino dancer theater mother It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made. Amy Sherman-Palladino tough film made 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino easy writing people 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! Amy Sherman-Palladino beautiful believe thinking 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. Amy Sherman-Palladino fans littles thinking
