A biography for Marti Noxonhasn’t been written yet.
“Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.”
“There's no shape or body type that makes you more happy or more lovable. It's the body you're comfortable in that makes you happier and more lovable. I look around and see how women and men of all types find the love and the life they want.”
“I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.”
“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.”
“Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'”
“I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.”
“A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.”
“Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.”
“'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to simply getting a film about people with eating disorders made. Without the brilliant Julie Lynn, Bonnie Curtis, and Karina Miller producing, there's no way this project would be coming to fruition.”
“Any press is good press.”
“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.”
“There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'”
“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.”
“I really understand that we have to be sensitive to people's feelings and to their sensitivities, but you also can't be muzzled to tell a story.”
“Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies.”
“I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.”
“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.”
“One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.”
“Seeing Donald Trump run for and then win the presidency only enhanced my commitment to helping people free themselves from ridiculous body standards and disordered eating so they can use their gifts for more fulfilling things, like being of service and enjoying this beautiful world.”
“You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.”