Quotes from Marti Noxon

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'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful experience. It was such a fully realized show.

I'm lucky to be alive. It's a blessing to tell my story, you know.

Scenes on phones are really boring!

Being an aging woman in Hollywood is no picnic.

I'm pretty proud of my pie crust. I think I've finally learned how to manhandle it just enough.

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.

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.

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.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

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

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.

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.

Like everbody, I'm addicted to 'The Handmaid's Tale.'

On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

Any press is good press.

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

A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.

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

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.

I think there's a good-er divorce. I think that's absolutely possible. There's a better way to do it and everything in between, and then, of course, there's the disastrous way to do it.