Top 60 Marti Noxon Quotes

It’s interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.

I’m such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I’d go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it’s not just one thing.

If you made a movie of ‘Sharp Objects,’ chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they’re not very fun in movies.

The bane of every TV writer’s existence is the likability note.

I think I’ve also grown a little bit in that I’m not so easily dissuaded if I really believe something.

Scenes on phones are really boring!

We did have ‘The Bronze’, a very active website on ‘Buffy’ where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But now it’s important to be engaged in the discussion while the show is airing and right after.

Like everbody, I’m addicted to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’

For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There’s no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.

There’re been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it’s become.

If there’s a theme to where I’m at in my life, it’s that ‘warts and all’ is actually my superpower. Just like you, I’m messed up and I’m capable. I’m this and that.

Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I’m eager to tap into. We’re all incredibly excited that he’s agreed to help us bring ‘To the Bone’ to life.

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like ‘Close Encounters,’ ‘Poltergeist,’ and ‘E.T.’ That was the beginning of my obsession.

There’s no shape or body type that makes you more happy or more lovable. It’s the body you’re comfortable in that makes you happier and more lovable. I look around and see how women and men of all types find the love and the life they want.

‘Just’ writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.

When you work in television, it’s an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don’t necessarily understand that you’re not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.

I’ve never had as much success as when I say to myself, ‘I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.’

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It’s serious.

The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

That’s a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.

I always joke that I’m a feminist with a boob job.

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

You can’t ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

I’ve grown and changed, and I’m still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

Not proud. But I watched ‘The Bachelor’ only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.

One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers’ room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.

I’ve watched my fair share of ‘Housewives.’ And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.

I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people’s feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can’t be muzzled to tell a story.

I’ll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that ‘Buffy’ was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers’ room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn’t make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don’t know what you’re saying.

I can’t be interesting, controversial, and the writer I’d like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I’m doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

On ‘Sex and The City’, when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, ‘Sell your shoes!’

I’m pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I’ve finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

You really can’t quantify what ‘Dietland’ is.

I think we’re in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn’t seen anything like her on TV – ever.

My dad had made a documentary called ‘The Dream Factory’ about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn’t changed that much. There’s certainly slang that I’m not familiar with, but among the average teen, it’s still the same.

Being the director – way fancier than ‘just’ being the writer. People call you ‘talent.’

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

The truth is there’s a difference between the competition shows where you’re testing skills and the type of shows where you’re trying to create drama.

I’m a big believer in ‘Trojan horses’ – There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

I don’t like characters who are either good or bad. I just don’t experience that in life, so my writing hasn’t evolved that way.

I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.

That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, ‘You’ve got to write this; you are a writer,’ and me not knowing how to approach the material.

Sometimes when I’m reading a script, I can’t quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

Can’t write worrying what the Internet’s going to think.

I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.

Ever since I worked on ‘Buffy’, it’s always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, ‘Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It’s gone to YA.’

A great thing, which I don’t do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.

The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.

The best feeling you can ever have when you’re working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

It’s so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them ‘un-gay’ again. Like, once you become gay, you’ve crossed over, or you’re not allowed to be a person who doesn’t want to be defined by a label like that.