American - Writer | August 25, 1964 -
I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.
Marti Noxon
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The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.
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That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've got to write this; you are a writer,' and me not knowing how to approach the material.
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So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.
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I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.
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The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn't seen anything like her on TV - ever.
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The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.
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For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.
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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.
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Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.
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