Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Well, I have no time for therapy.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”