Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

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• What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks romance. I think women's roles have gotten…
• With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the…
• When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in…
• Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
• When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's…
• With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
• Bryce Zabel and I went down the road of revising the Kennedy historical record together on the NBC seriesDark Skies. This time instead of giving…
• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.
• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if…
• I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to…
• I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes.…
• It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far.…
• I'm not saying that 'Twilight' is, you know, some brilliant Oscar-winner, it's not 'Dr. Zhivago.' It's not trying to be. Because it is a female…
• With any sci-fi fantasy storytelling, you must have rules be very clear, otherwise you lose people, like 'OK, they can fly; now they can't fly.'
• I got so lucky on my 'Red Widow' cast. It was just the universe looking out for me that I got those actors. It's a…
• I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you…
• I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan…
• So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan…
• To me, to spend all the time and energy and face all those creative challenges that you would spend for a two hour movie, you're…
• I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and…

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