American - Director | May 16, 1971 -
We just want to be sure that what we're creating is pushing the ball forward for women and diversity in media.
Jennifer Konner
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Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.
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The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant solution than one of us 'winning.'
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I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I was making copies and giving them out.
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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls aren't trying to find their major career paths or life partners. They're just literally trying to get through the week and pay the rent. It's a really different time of life.
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I think it's weird that they're trying to make us be negative about 'Sex and the City'... Not HBO, but the press. Really, they're dying for us to say something negative about 'Sex and the City.'
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I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.
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All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.
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What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing, acting, and she's probably written the dialogue. It's 2 in the morning. Everyone's tired. Everyone's grumpy. And she has a smile on her face and kindness for everyone who interacts with her.
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When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is speaking another language, so there's no engaging with that kind of stuff.
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It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.
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I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.
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