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Jennifer Konner

(1971) Screenwriter

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Jennifer Konner is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About Jennifer Konner

Born: May 16, 1971
Profession: Screenwriter

About Jennifer Konner

[Wikidata] American television writer, producer and director... | [Wikipedia] Jennifer A. Konner is an American television writer, producer, and director. She was the co-showrunner and writer with Lena Dunham of the HBO series Girls. In 2016, she directed the season finale of the fifth season of Girls titled "I Love You Baby", and in 2017, she directed the episode "Latching",

Quotes by Jennifer Konner

When the insane people start the chatter, there's no way to win that fight. It's literally like arguing with someone who is…

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Fight

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I'm always shocked by what people react to.

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Always

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We want to talk to celebrities about the things celebrities don't normally talk about. Like, we'd love to get Kim Kardashian to…

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Finance

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We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time…

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Believe

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What I always think about when I think about 'Girls' is Lena being in a scene where she's very vulnerable, possibly directing,…

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Acting

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Our interests are pretty boundless, as is our appetite for new creative experiences.

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Boundless

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The key is that when we disagree, we really hear the other one out and agree that there is a more elegant…

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Key

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One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but…

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Day

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To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.

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Anyone

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The thing that's different about 'Girls' and 'Sex and the City' isn't just that we live in Brooklyn; it's that these girls…

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Career path

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Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're…

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Come

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I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.

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Advice

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To be a little divisive is kind of hot.

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Divisive

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I just went insane. I just, like, couldn't get off of Twitter. It was like, 'I guess this is where I live…

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Like

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I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'm the distributor of it. I…

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Furniture

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All of my peers were becoming bajillionaires. There was no one from college left in the temp force.

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Becoming

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There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's…

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Disappointment

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That's like - my thing is I'm always like, 'Oh, white men are ruining everything,' and Max's dad is like... don't say…

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Always

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I always think there's this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like,…

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Best

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I worked with Michael Bay on 'Transformers,' and I got to work with the writer of 'Transformers,' who's this really great guy…

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Change

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It's very hard to get together with your friends. You rarely see friends as a whole group.

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Friends

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You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

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Facts

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I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New…

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Come

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We've never had twin infants on set in all kinds of different roles.

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Different

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Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.

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Alive

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