Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.”

“I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.”

“It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.”

“There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.”

“Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.”

“Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.”

“Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.”

“Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.”

“I don't think anyone who runs a TV show would ever say to you, 'I have a grasp on running a TV show.' Maybe that's not true. Maybe there are people that do. I don't know.”

“I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'”