Television Quotes by Marti Noxon

17 Television quotes by Marti Noxon

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Marti Noxon’s career spans genre‑bending dramas and sharp comedies, and her reflections on TV are as varied as her work. Seventeen quotes here explore the balance between creative risk and audience appeal.

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

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

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On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that…

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The thing that can happen in a TV room is you can get 'teamthink': you can all go down a crazy path…

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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…

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I'll be honest: I had a real deep-seated fear that 'Buffy' was going to be my peak. It was such a beautiful…

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Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

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A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.

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I've been looking for a versatile and writer-driven home that could help me bring more complex, exciting, and potentially murderous characters to…

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When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed…

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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very…

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To be able to actually sit in a theater and watch people get off on anything that I had a part in,…

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We're in the second golden age of television, and to me, one of the most profound things that's happening in TV is…

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We did have 'The Bronze', a very active website on 'Buffy' where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But…

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Sometimes when I'm reading a script, I can't quite believe that this is going on television alongside cereal commercials.

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The reason I fell in love with Buffy was because of the ambiguity, because she was a superhero and a hot mess.…

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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

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I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.

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

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I think many people expend a tremendous amount of energy on self-loathing and self-flagellation as well as getting caught in a vicious cycle of…

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I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one…

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I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.

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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would…

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I think the barrier for a lot of people to actual, real, lasting love is the fantasy. The problem is that we think in…

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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,…

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There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.

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I think the science around mental illness is always evolving. There's always new kinds of thinking.

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Everybody expects to have a filmic experience when they're watching television, whether they're watching network, basic cable, premium, or streaming.

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If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can…

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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…

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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…

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I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.

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