Amy Sherman-Palladino Quotes

As a writer, it's very difficult to just hand your script over to someone else, especially if you have to watch them hurt it, and that's when I decided I would direct my own work.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.

I write what I write.

The good thing about directing a screenplay that you've written is that you see the film in your head as you're writing it and then you see those decisions through to the end.

I don't see myself directing things I don't write because, to me, directing was just an extension of the writing process.

I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

I do like directing other people's material.

I'm currently trying to direct my own material.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.