Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
To aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I've been watching 'American Idol' since its debut season in 2002. Back then, America hadn't yet evolved into a gladiatorial cybernation of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
For me, writing essays, prose and fiction is a great way to be self-indulgent. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford… — 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
