A biography for Marti Noxonhasn’t been written yet.
“The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.”
“Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'”
“There are certain shows or people that I would love to work with. One of the greatest things about our business is that if you get to fan out on people you might actually get to meet.”
“I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.”
“In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not necessarily likable, doing a job that is despicable, and we are not going to be afraid of that.'”
“I encourage people and their different points of view.”
“When every word is parsed for ill intention, regardless of who is speaking or why, we become so afraid we'll offend that we stop trying to communicate with people we don't understand.”
“When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I felt like maybe we wouldn't find a home for it because it's unlike anything else that I've done.”
“When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.”
“I don't like characters who are either good or bad. I just don't experience that in life, so my writing hasn't evolved that way.”
“'Just' writing is every bit as important as any other creative part of a film.”
“I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.”
“Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.”
“The bane of every TV writer's existence is the likability note.”
“We did have 'The Bronze', a very active website on 'Buffy' where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But now it's important to be engaged in the discussion while the show is airing and right after.”
“The best feeling you can ever have when you're working on a show is that the characters are still inside you, and they have a lot left to do.”
“I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'”
“It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.”
“The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess. I hadn't seen anything like her on TV - ever.”
“I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.”