57 Quotes by Amy Sherman-Palladino

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.

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.

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.

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

I can’t wait to sit with these unbelievable broads and relive a time where sleep did not exist, where stress and coffee were mama’s little helpers, and where we all dove into the deep end together to make something weird and very, very cool.

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

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

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.

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.