Top 60 Diablo Cody Quotes

The fashion industry isn’t merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn’t wearing ridiculously tight pants.

I’m glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

Honestly, this will never happen because she’s so much classier than me, but I would love to work with Sofia Coppola.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

I’m not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

These days, the Rolling Stones still have an edge, but that fangs-out ferocity has mellowed considerably.

It’s actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated.

I think it’s great when writers get recognition; it doesn’t happen very often. I just don’t want that writer to be me. Let it be Aaron Sorkin or, you know, somebody good.

There’s probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

I want Maggie Gyllenhaal. I don’t know why. I don’t think she necessarily looks like me or acts like me, I just think she’s a cool actress and she could play me, so there you go.

I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don’t tan.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

There’s a weird cloud around you when you’re recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women’s job in Hollywood.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Unfortunately I don’t live by a Target now, so I just go to a regular Starbucks as opposed to a Starbucks nested inside a Target, which is my ideal situation. That works out for me. I like that white noise, those interruptions, and the people around me.

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Mamma Mia!’ on their shared opening weekend.

I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

‘Sweet Valley High’ is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and – dare I say it – cinematic.

I feel like I’m part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we’re actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that’s it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they’re very young.

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

People have always wanted to be recognized, and that’s human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they simply want to be visible.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

In the past, I’ll admit, I’ve enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

There’s something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

It’s possible that I’ve matured as a writer, and I hope I’ve matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.

I wrote a screenplay for a ‘Sweet Valley High’ adaptation, and it’s really amazing to me how many women who are my age have responded to the idea and are excited about the movie.

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

I appreciate the positivity of those ‘year of the woman’ articles – it’s good to get that energy out there – but at the same time, in Hollywood it’s not happening yet.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women’s struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it’s also important to tell stories about women’s triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don’t know any screenwriters. It didn’t seem like a realistic career possibility.

Let it be said that the makeup artist at ‘90210’ made me look better for the fake red carpet than I’ve ever looked on an actual red carpet.

I’ve been told that I’m incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn’t function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

I’ve come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that’s what I do primarily now.

If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I’ll fire up my season 2 DVD of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.’

I am actually able to do other things. I’m not just this writer.

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

I always say when you write a book, you’re a ‘one-man band.’ Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it’s just a sketch.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

That’s also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it’s really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It’s kind of like the indie music scene.

But here is the single greatest thing about the ‘Vanity Fair’ party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of cheeseburgers all night long.

It doesn’t matter if they’re in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I hear that 5 o’clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I’m also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn’t that common, at the same time, I’m not an actress. I’m pretty isolated.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire ‘best director’ category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

I’ve always been a writer, I’ve always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

The Rolling Stones are so versatile, they’re like the band version of that Infinite Dress they sell on QVC.

I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son’s school tuition in Los Angeles.

The fact is, when I wrote ‘Juno’ – and I think this is part of its charm and appeal – I didn’t know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I’ve been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can’t expose them to bright light or get them wet.

I can’t write at night. For me, I’m programmed to believe that nighttime is for relaxation.

I don’t think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

People don’t have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.