Marti Noxon

I always joke that I'm a feminist with a boob job.

— Marti Noxon

It all starts with a very solid, well-executed script, where the story is very clear and everybody is rowing in the same…

— Marti Noxon

Of all the mental illnesses, anorexia has the highest morbidity rate. It's serious.

— Marti Noxon

Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty'…

— Marti Noxon

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like…

— Marti Noxon

Absolutely, love exists in this universe.

— Marti Noxon

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

— Marti Noxon

I realized all the writing I love lives in the gray area.

— Marti Noxon

When people are like, ''UnREAL' is so dark,' I'm like, 'Hahahahahahahahahaha! Wait 'til you get to 'Sharp Objects.''

— Marti Noxon

With everything I do, I strive for a balance of tone, where it's not just one thing.

— Marti Noxon

Women want to watch the dark stuff.

— Marti Noxon

Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh,…

— Marti Noxon

Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that…

— Marti Noxon

I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and…

— Marti Noxon

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

— Marti Noxon

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was…

— Marti Noxon

I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.

— Marti Noxon

When I was going to get ready to take 'Dietland' up, I have to say I was surprised to find that I…

— Marti Noxon

I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to…

— Marti Noxon

I had been anorexic for about five years. And I was really sick. I probably weighed about 70 pounds.

— Marti Noxon

I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much.…

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'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger' not only applies to the deeply personal subject matter of 'To the Bone' but to…

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That went on for a long time: telling various tales from my experience being anorexic and bulimic, and having people say, 'You've…

— Marti Noxon

I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider…

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In 'UnREAL', for me, just being so openly feminist, just being so overtly, like, 'This show is about women who are not…

— Marti Noxon