A biography for Marti Noxonhasn’t been written yet.
“Scenes on phones are really boring!”
“I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.”
“The status quo is never happy when things become a meritocracy.”
“I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!”
“I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of dieting and gaining the weight back.”
“I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to television - and the team at Skydance is the ideal partner for that.”
“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.”
“The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path together.”
“There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.”
“With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.”
“Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.”
“If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.”
“It's funny: I've joked that 'Sharp Objects,' 'To the Bone,' and 'Dietland' are my self-harm trilogy, and each one is a different side of that triangle, with 'Dietland' really about fighting back.”
“I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.”
“Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'”
“I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.”
“For me, the interesting thing about anorexia is that you show your wound. There's no hiding it. So my anger and sense of disappointment, all the stuff I was out of touch with, became this visible rebuke to my parents.”
“I bemoaned the pending loss of Obamacare/the Affordable Care Act.”
“There's a brain chemistry - the floatiness and the disassociation and all the things that came with starving - I became addicted to.”
“On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'”