People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who are my… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Personally, I consider 'Titanic' the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I always say when you write a book, you're a 'one-man band.' Whereas, when you finish a screenplay, it's just a sketch. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
When you're trying to come up with an idea for a movie it's actually the hardest part - the germ of the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
“The name fuse followed me from the book to the screenplay, and now I have to live with the name, which I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
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… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
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… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
