Amy Sherman-Palladino
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Amy Sherman-Palladinois an American television writer, director, and producer. The founder of Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, she is best known as the creator of the television series Gilmore Girls and Bunheads...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
sadness dark attention
I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.
thinking paper way
I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
kindness nice generosity
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.
tvs territory speed
TV is all about speed. TV is fast and furious. It's gunslinger territory.
girl air voice
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.
two voice people
You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.
growing-up thinking feelings
I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.
sticks working-it ifs
If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.
crazy fighting creative
To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
running judging people
With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
writing actors want
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
cutting path bait
You've gotta have a path [in your life]. And then, within that path, you have to be flexible. When things aren't working, you've gotta cut bait and find something else, but if you don't have a path, you're just dead.
pilots way madly-in-love
Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
car parent hello
I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.