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
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.
tough film made
It's tough to get any film made, even if you're Martin Scorsese. It's just hard to get films made.
writing work-out friendly
It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it.
character vagabonds television
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.
writing mind trying
I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
fun writing up-early
With directing, you have to wake up early, which stinks, but you get to hang out with the crew, you're laughing, you're active, and you're working with the actors. It's just more fun than writing. Writing is very hard.
writing people easy
This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
thinking littles fans
I don't begrudge anyone else for anything, but to me, I think the fans deserve to have a studio put money behind their product because when the fans put money into a project and it makes any sort of money, it goes back to the studio. I think that's a little shady.
beautiful believe college
I believe that you have a boyfriend for certain times of your life, and I think the boyfriend who is your most beautiful first boyfriend is not the boyfriend that you're with in college, and your college boyfriend is not your first boyfriend!
mother dancer theater
Dance was always part of my life because I was a dancer and my mother was a dancer, and I love the theater.
rooms sweatpants
No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.
thinking television mundane
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
mother years class
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.
jobs character writing
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.