American - Writer | August 25, 1964 -
The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal with real issues of identity and what people are going through and the choice of who you're going to be, but it's all large.
Marti Noxon
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I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.
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A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
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I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
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The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.
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The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.
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Women want to watch the dark stuff.
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The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.
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Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.
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It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.
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I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.
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Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.
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