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“To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable.”
“TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for.”
“It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you.”
“I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas.”
“In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25.”
“Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it.”
“TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.”
“'The Vampire Diaries' is a serialized drama. It deserved its final chapter.”
“We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out.”
“I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.”
“I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.”
“I realized that I get pleasure when I'm told, 'Don't listen to the haters; they're losers in their moms' basements.' I imagine these 'losers' and feel better about myself. Their insults hurt less if I label them 'pathetic.' I diminish their value in order to protect mine. I noticed that I'm quick to make a joke at someone else's expense.”
“If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy.”
“I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film.”
“I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.'”
“A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience.”
“I remember just weeping my way through the 'Friday Night Lights' finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful.”
“There's a reason a happy ending is called an ending. The trick of a television storyteller is to find all the rivers and mountains and valleys on the way to that ending.”
“I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss.”
“The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are.”