Quotes from Marti Noxon

That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.

My dad had made a documentary called 'The Dream Factory' about MGM, and my whole life, I just wanted to be inside it. And there I was.

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've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

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.

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.

The truth is there's a difference between the competition shows where you're testing skills and the type of shows where you're trying to create drama.

I can't be interesting, controversial, and the writer I'd like to be if I need everybody to like me and think I'm doing the right thing, because those two things, in my experience, never go hand in hand.

You really can't quantify what 'Dietland' is.

One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you come back, and you might have a fresher take.

There's no shape or body type that makes you more happy or more lovable. It's the body you're comfortable in that makes you happier and more lovable. I look around and see how women and men of all types find the love and the life they want.

I did, of course, do research about what the current state of affairs is in terms of the eating disorder community and who's being affected, and I was surprised to see that - something that was - way back when I was in the thick of it, it was typified as a fairly white, middle-class girl problem. And if it was, it really isn't anymore.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

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

The problem with generalizations and judgments, the words we hurl as insults, is that they deny our humanity and our stories.

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.

I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.

It's humiliating, being told you're not responsible enough to make your own choices in life.

Can't write worrying what the Internet's going to think.

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.

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

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.