You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.'

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Nashville is the place where I first realized how impossible it is to look at someone and know what is inside them, what special something they possess.

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they dont care about movies.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.