I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.

I grew up in the Valley, and I didn't know any of our neighbors. I think when you grow up like that, there's always sort of a fantasy of a place where everybody knew each other, and you had that safe sort of feeling.

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.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

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