Quotes by Amy Sherman-Palladino

About Amy Sherman-Palladino:

Amy Sherman-Palladino is an American television writer, director, and producer. The founder of Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, she is best known as the creator of the television series Gilmore Girls and Bunheads.
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it ...

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Well, I have no time for therapy.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I don't go on the Internet. I never go on the Internet. I don't go on Twitter. I'm not on Facebook. I've seen friends go into dark, dark holes of sadness because of that. Frankly, I don't have the time or the attention span for it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

If we based everything in Hollywood on who was a nice guy, holy moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by kindness and generosity.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

Amy Sherman-Palladino

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn't leave, so I finally had to pretend to get sick to my stomach just to get her out of the room long enough for him to climb ...

Amy Sherman-Palladino

Author Bio

  • NameAmy Sherman-Palladino
  • DescriptionAmerican television writer, director, and producer
  • Born1966
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Dancer