Quotes from Diablo Cody

Everyone's favorite supper is a gluey carbohydrate-rich concoction known simply as "hotdish" and served in a community Pyrex.

The name fuse followed me from the book to the screenplay, and now I have to live with the name, which I chose in 30 seconds with no thought about how it might sound or what it might imply. It was just a funny thing.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

I hear that 5 o'clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I'm also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

I'm not an especially highbrow person, but I have always loved small, quirky, edgy movies.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

The stuff I write isn't strictly autobiographical, but it's personal, if that makes any sense. It draws all these little incidents and people out of my life and then contorts them.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.

But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of cheeseburgers all night long.

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.