Quotes by Maggie Carey

About Maggie Carey:

Maggie Carey is an American director and screenwriter. She has directed comedy shorts for television, and she wrote and directed the 2013 film The To Do List.
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Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.

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I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

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The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.

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With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

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You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a woman, so I'm definitely going to write from that point of view.

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What I loved about myself as a teenager is that I didn't know any better to be afraid or to be insecure.

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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

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The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.

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What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.

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Let's talk about Connie Britton, who I love. I don't know of a person who doesn't love her, I don't know a man or woman who doesn't have a crush on her, she's the most fabulous person in the entire world, and she's such an incredible actress, and so ...

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Author Bio

  • NameMaggie Carey
  • DescriptionAmerican director and screenwriter
  • Born1977
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Director