Melissa Rosenberg Quotes

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• Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.

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  Reason, Horns, Given

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• 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 an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.

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  Writing, Sandwiches, World

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• 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 end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

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  Tired, Thinking, Long

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• Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

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  Character, My Favorite, Comic

  Source: deadline.com

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• 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 you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

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  Patience, Space, Challenges

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• I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile.

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  Writing, Different, World

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Television, Rooms

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• My husband is a director, and I understand what it takes to direct. It's a skill set where you have to be able to talk to actors and understand them, and I don't. It's a very different way of being in the world, and I much prefer writing and producing.

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  Husband, Writing, Skills

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

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  People, Mentor, Female

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• 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 addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

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  Writing, Fighting, Voice

  "Interview: Melissa Rosenberg On New Moon, Eclipse, And Breaking Dawn's Potential Mpaa Rating". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Keys

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• I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.

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  Two, Numbers, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• The number of vacations me and my husband have canceled... if you really want a job, book a non-refundable vacation. But obviously we're blessed too.

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  Jobs, Husband, Book

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg On Twilight". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. November 11, 2008.

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• I love that as a theme for women: Stop standing by! You've got to make stuff happen! You've got to create your own world because if you let other people do it, they're going to just screw you.

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  People, Stuff Happens, World

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• 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 fantasy. I would argue that it's actually a universal fantasy. Which is, the fantasy being to be loved and cherished for exactly who you are.

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  Twilight, Trying, Female

  "A Conversation with Melissa Rosenberg – Writer of the Twilight Series". Interview with Melissa Rosenberg, www.indiewire.com. November 20, 2012.

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• In in some ways Jessica Jones and Supergirl are the opposite of one another, they both happen to have superpowers. But, in terms of the lack of parity, I think it is a good start and this is just the beginning I hope.

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  Thinking, Opposites, Way

  Source: deadline.com

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• I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

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  Twilight, Writing, Character

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• 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 big ensemble cast, a very international cast. I don't know how that happened.

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  Lucky, Widows, Ensemble

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• 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 new meaning to the established JFK chronology, hes created a brand new one altogether.Surrounded by Enemiesis an exhilarating ride, full of twists and turns that never were, but surely could have been.

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  Nbc, Sky, Giving

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• When I was developing the [TV Series "Daredevil"] idea, we were really doing something closer to what was in the comic book. By that, I mean in terms of civilians in the street knew that superpowers were an everyday matter of fact. When it finally ended up at Netflix, they really decided to land it in the Marvel Universe that exists in the cinematic universe. That changes the story entirely. It was no longer about the other, which is what that metaphor was. It's really more about the character herself, which I love.

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  Book, Character, Mean

  Source: deadline.com

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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 ghettoized in these sort of places... I'm thinking women in action, comic books, or like the Tony Soprano of women. We need some complex roles.

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  Book, Thinking, Talking

  "'Twilight' screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks Kristen Stewart, Bill Condon and 'Breaking Dawn'". Interview with Matt Donnelly, latimesblogs.latimes.com. June 14, 2010.

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• 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.'

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  People, Fantasy, Storytelling

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• 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 inventing a world, you're inventing characters. If they're interesting enough, they should be compelling enough to go for five more episodes. How incredibly frustrating would it be to just do one movie?

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  Character, Two, Interesting

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• 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 Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called Afterthought, and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

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  Girl, Fun, Writing

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 1, EARTHSEED and NBC’s AFTERTHOUGHT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 15, 2011.

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• 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. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.

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  Writing, Character, Awkward

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