Marti Noxon

“I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.”

“Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.”

“I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.”

“So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.”

“Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I'm eager to tap into. We're all incredibly excited that he's agreed to help us bring 'To the Bone' to life.”

“It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same direction. That's always good; that's a constant.”

“Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.”

“I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.”

“I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.”

“You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.”

“I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'”

“Spike (to Giles) : Oh, poor Watcher. Did your life pass before your eyes — 'Cuppa tea, cuppa tea... almost got shagged... cuppa tea'?”

“I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.”

“I think I've also grown a little bit in that I'm not so easily dissuaded if I really believe something.”

“I'm so excited to be part of the environment that David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross have built at Skydance.”

“I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.”

“On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.”

“A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.”

“Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.”