If something ain't working, it ain't working. You can't stick with it.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.

I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.

I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.