Diablo Cody

“I don't think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.”

“I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.”

“Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.”

“I just want to be able to keep my house and pay for my son's school tuition in Los Angeles.”

“There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.”

“I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.”

“It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.”

“I'm one of the people that were divorced by 30, which is apparently a growing group... Obviously it's something that affects you forever. It's going to be interesting to see in ten, twenty years what kind of lasting effect young divorce has on the people that are doing it because it's becoming more and more common.”

“It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.”

“I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.”

“The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.”

“'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.”

“There's something about a roller coaster that triggers strong feelings, maybe because most of us associate them with childhood. They're inherently cinematic; the very shape of a coaster, all hills and valleys and sickening helices, evokes a human emotional response.”

“Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.”

“To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.”

“Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!”