Words matter. These are the best Jennifer Konner Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.
The thing that’s different about ‘Girls’ and ‘Sex and the City’ isn’t just that we live in Brooklyn; it’s that these girls aren’t trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They’re just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It’s a really different time of life.
That’s like – my thing is I’m always like, ‘Oh, white men are ruining everything,’ and Max’s dad is like… don’t say that in front of your son.
People will fight hard for something they want or something they don’t want, that they don’t believe a character would do.
There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it’s going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.
All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.
I’ve worked with Judd since ‘Undeclared,’ and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.
What I always think about when I think about ‘Girls’ is Lena being in a scene where she’s very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she’s probably written the dialogue. It’s 2 in the morning. Everyone’s tired. Everyone’s grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.
We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don’t normally talk about. Like, we’d love to get Kim Kardashian to talk to us about finance. She is a businesswoman, after all.
I think it’s weird that they’re trying to make us be negative about ‘Sex and the City’… Not HBO, but the press. Really, they’re dying for us to say something negative about ‘Sex and the City.’
I’ve worked on sets that were unhappy.
You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it’s supposed to be so organic that you feel like you’re doing something incorrect.
I just went insane. I just, like, couldn’t get off of Twitter. It was like, ‘I guess this is where I live now – talking about Emily Gould on Twitter’.
I’d quit my job at a production company and was like, ‘I’m going to be a writer…’ I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn’t exist.
I think a great negotiator is an aggressive negotiator, and we’re aggressive negotiators, We’re not worried about someone coming at us.
Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you’re the dude from the streets. Or you’re the woman who was in prison.
I don’t like to listen to the unthoughtful criticism. When we have thoughtful criticism, I love it.
The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in ‘Tiny Furniture.’
I worked with Michael Bay on ‘Transformers,’ and I got to work with the writer of ‘Transformers,’ who’s this really great guy whom I loved.
The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don’t know what people mean when they say ‘likable.’
To be a little divisive is kind of hot.
We’ve never had twin infants on set in all kinds of different roles.
I always think there’s this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, ‘We’re sticking this out. It’s the hardest place to live, but it’s the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.’
One of the reasons ‘Boogie Nights’ is one of my favorite movies is because it’s about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they’re really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have.
It’s very hard to get together with your friends. You rarely see friends as a whole group.
The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us ‘winning.’
Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.
When we’re in production, it’s 14 hours a day, and we couldn’t be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can’t see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.
I just saw ‘Tiny Furniture’ and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I’m the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.
The origin of ‘Lenny Letter,’ it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.
