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Jenji Kohan Quotes

If you go to a network and say, I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women, you’re not gonna make a sale. But, if you’ve got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into Picture Quote #1

It can go two ways with girls: They either bond or eat each other alive Picture Quote #1

For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it’s fantastic Picture Quote #1

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It’s my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I’m enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I’m saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances Picture Quote #1

We’re also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We’d like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on Picture Quote #1

I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there’s humor. And if you don’t show that, you’re not being true to real life Picture Quote #1

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When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the ‘Los Angeles Reader’ in the Miracle Mile and at ‘High Performance’ magazine downtown Picture Quote #1

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do Picture Quote #1

My ex-boyfriend said, ‘You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.’ Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, ‘Well, screw you.’ And we broke up Picture Quote #1

I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged Picture Quote #1

Be nice’ is my family’s basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There’s always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it’s much less exhausting! Picture Quote #1

I’m not a public figure; I shouldn’t have to be held to a certain standard of beauty Picture Quote #1

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We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling Picture Quote #1

I’m never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I’ve got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady Picture Quote #1

But, I like the challenge of, How can we stretch this out? Where can we go with it? It’s an open road, especially at Netflix. You can take it anywhere you want Picture Quote #1

It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren’t funny Picture Quote #1

There’s more to us than the moment we made a bad decision Picture Quote #1

I’m always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it’s a mosaic. There’s all these pieces, they’re next to each other, they’re not necessarily mixing. And I’m looking for those spaces where people actually do mix Picture Quote #1

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If you go to a network and say, I wanna do prison stories about black women and Latino women and old women, you’re not gonna make a sale. But, if you’ve got this blonde girl going to prison, you can get in there, and then you can tell all the stories. I just thought it was a terrific gateway drug into all the things I wanted to get into. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) It can go two ways with girls: They either bond or eat each other alive (Jenji Kohan Quotes) For a lot of people, film is still the dream - the captive audience in the darkened theater - but I love TV. I think it’s fantastic. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I believe in the power of media. I really do. It’s my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I’m enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I’m saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) We’re also talking a lot in the room about planting seeds that can grow over the course of the season, knowing that people might be watching them in bulk. We’d like to bury some Easter eggs and let people find them, later on. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I think shows that are completely dramatic are a lie. People use humor to cope. That is how we deal with things. In the darkest situations, there’s humor. And if you don’t show that, you’re not being true to real life. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) When I got out of college in 1991, I had four jobs in four different parts of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an intern at the ‘Los Angeles Reader’ in the Miracle Mile and at ‘High Performance’ magazine downtown. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) My ex-boyfriend said, ‘You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.’ Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, ‘Well, screw you.’ And we broke up. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I can shoot off my big mouth and write my shows and run my shows, and I can recognize how lucky I am because my position is rare and my position is privileged. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) Be nice’ is my family’s basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There’s always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it’s much less exhausting! (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I’m not a public figure; I shouldn’t have to be held to a certain standard of beauty (Jenji Kohan Quotes) We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I’m never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I’ve got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) But, I like the challenge of, How can we stretch this out? Where can we go with it? It’s an open road, especially at Netflix. You can take it anywhere you want. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren’t funny. (Jenji Kohan Quotes) There’s more to us than the moment we made a bad decision (Jenji Kohan Quotes) I’m always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it’s a mosaic. There’s all these pieces, they’re next to each other, they’re not necessarily mixing. And I’m looking for those spaces where people actually do mix (Jenji Kohan Quotes)