Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

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.

Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

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.

If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

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.

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.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

I don't believe in crowd funders. I don't believe the fans should be paying for their own things.

The whole world is out of time!

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.

These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.