Writer

Women have to take more control of their careers. They can't just wait to be cast in a film.

I'm very much interested in doing actual theater.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

I've been a teenager. I even feel like I've been a 16-year-old girl. So I have a lot of voices inside my head!

A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.

TV is where a writer can write his novel.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

We have people in our lives who help us evolve along the way. If you're lucky, you find someone who evolves along with you, and that's what you call a long-term relationship.

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

I really like Rosamund Pike very much.

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.

It's not uncommon to have chaotic writers' rooms.

The woman who runs the Pennsylvania Innocence Project told me that there's a man she's been trying to get out of prison for 26 years. Every night before she goes to bed, she thinks, 'What is he doing?' She says you don't sleep. And yet, she has the greatest sense of humor and this light that comes out of her.

My true nature, I believe, is writing.

The real Liberace - and I'll preface this by saying that I didn't know the real one - was a man who didn't come from much. His father left him and his family for another woman. His father was a musician, which I thought was pretty interesting.