A biography for Jennifer Konnerhasn’t been written yet.
“The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'”
“It's when people come at you on Twitter and say really crazy things. That's the kind of stuff that I insulate myself from. All of that is not very interesting or helpful, but we have critics who sometimes really love us or sometimes don't, and it's really interesting for me to see what they don't like about it.”
“We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.”
“When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.”
“Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.”
“I just went insane. I just, like, couldn't get off of Twitter. It was like, 'I guess this is where I live now - talking about Emily Gould on Twitter'.”
“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.'”
“I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy whom I loved.”
“There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.”
“I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, 'We're sticking this out. It's the hardest place to live, but it's the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.'”
“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.”
“The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.”
“You have trouble breastfeeding, and for some reason, it's supposed to be so organic that you feel like you're doing something incorrect.”
“Judd Apatow, together with me and Lena, we're all the showrunners of 'Girls.'”
“That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say that in front of your son.”
“You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'”
“People will fight hard for something they want or something they don't want, that they don't believe a character would do.”
“All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.”
“I've worked on sets that were unhappy.”
“The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'”