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Marti Noxon
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 25
,
1964
Life
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
Marti Noxon
Work
Me
Business
Creative
People
Problem
Made
First
Important
Profit
Think
Other
Admired
Had
Observing
Over
Liked
Within
Priority
Go
Years
Very
Person
Trying
Biggest
Biggest Problem
Realized
Who
Creative Person
Eating disorders are A) not fun at parties, and B) they're not very fun in movies.
Marti Noxon
Eating
Parties
Very
Movies
Disorders
Fun
There're been sort of a sea change in my work in general, in that the more personal, the universal it's become.
Marti Noxon
Work
Change
Become
General
More
Sort
Been
Personal
Sea
Sea Change
Universal
You should live hoping you are going to offend people, because then you're doing something.
Marti Noxon
You
People
Live
Hoping
Something
Because
Doing
Offend
Going
Then
Should
Keanu has such generosity and intelligence, not to mention a warmth that I'm eager to tap into. We're all incredibly excited that he's agreed to help us bring 'To the Bone' to life.
Marti Noxon
Life
Intelligence
Bone
Incredibly
Mention
He
Excited
Generosity
Tap
Warmth
Us
Help
Agreed
Eager
Bring
I love characters who are really dedicated to a really bad plan.
Marti Noxon
Love
Characters
Bad
Plan
Really
Dedicated
Who
I think we're in a time when people are much more interested in a show than where you find it.
Marti Noxon
Time
You
People
Think
Find
More
Than
Where
Interested
Much
Show
We did have 'The Bronze', a very active website on 'Buffy' where we got a lot of feedback and post-game discussion. But now it's important to be engaged in the discussion while the show is airing and right after.
Marti Noxon
Website
Feedback
Important
Active
Airing
Bronze
Buffy
Got
Lot
Very
Discussion
Did
Where
After
While
Engaged
Show
Now
Right
Scenes on phones are really boring!
Marti Noxon
Phones
Boring
Scenes
Really
Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
Marti Noxon
Buy
People
Too Many People
Will
Too
Related
Back
Mental
Mental Illness
Insurance
Go
Junk
Die
Diseases
Help
Help People
Many
Illness
Letting
On 'Sex and The City', when Carrie talked about money problems, I would always think, 'Sell your shoes!'
Marti Noxon
Money
Problems
Sex
Shoes
Think
Carrie
Sex And The City
Would
City
About
Talked
Always
Sell
Your
I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!
Marti Noxon
Myself
Crazy
Try
Think
Resort
Type
Month
Someone
Had
Doer
Said
Go
Off
Organize
Vacation
I think women can relate to the feeling that we're internalizing too many demands, and we're trying to be good at everything, but one day, we're going to snap.
Marti Noxon
Good
Day
Women
Feeling
Think
Too
Relate
Everything
One Day
Demands
Snap
Trying
Going
Many
I'm a big believer in 'Trojan horses' - There are certain themes that are more palatable when wrapped in something fun or distracting.
Marti Noxon
Big
Distracting
Wrapped
Something
Something Fun
More
Horses
Big Believer
Themes
Certain
Fun
Believer
I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'
Marti Noxon
Dark
Huge
Huge Fan
Fan
Near
The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.
Marti Noxon
Beginning
Spielberg
Dream
Obsession
Like
Doing
Encounters
Close
Movies
Started
Watching
I certainly often go to a movie and don't remember exactly what the trailer had in it, except that it looked cool.
Marti Noxon
Remember
Exactly
Exactly What
Except
Had
Looked
Go
Trailer
Often
Movie
Certainly
Cool
I spent some time in Vegas when I was doing some canvassing for Obama back in 2008.
Marti Noxon
Time
Back
Spent
Obama
Some
Vegas
Doing
Test audiences are notorious for getting kind of itchy when people talk too much, and you have to trust your instincts that they don't necessarily understand that you're not digesting the movie on a scene-by-scene basis.
Marti Noxon
You
Trust
People
Too Much
Too
Kind
Instincts
Talk
Understand
Audiences
Test
Itchy
Getting
Movie
Much
Your
Notorious
Necessarily
Basis
I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
Marti Noxon
Success
Myself
Character
Feelings
Beginning
Say
Would
Would-Be
Through
Never
Had
Feel
Like
Know
Line
End
Get
Going
Much
That's a big part of the process: making the right choice from the beginning. Not getting distracted by shiny things.
Marti Noxon
Big
Beginning
Distracted
Part
Making
Shiny
Big Part
Getting
Process
Choice
Right
Things
Right Choice
I love being in a public space where teenagers are talking. And the funny thing is that it hasn't changed that much. There's certainly slang that I'm not familiar with, but among the average teen, it's still the same.
Marti Noxon
Love
Funny
Space
Teen
Changed
Funny Thing
Teenagers
Talking
Still
Familiar
Same
Being
Where
Public
Average
Much
Certainly
Slang
Among
Thing
A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.
Marti Noxon
Great
Try
Enough
Take
Stuff
Like
Great Thing
Go
Just
Break
Which
Theater
Producing
Thing
I was raised by a lesbian feminist who told me that shaving my legs was giving into the patriarchy. So, I consider myself to be a bona fide feminist.
Marti Noxon
Myself
Me
Giving
Lesbian
Consider
Shaving
Feminist
Patriarchy
Legs
Who
Bona
Bona Fide
Raised
Not proud. But I watched 'The Bachelor' only once, and I really felt, after that experience, that I could never do it again. I felt it was so morally compromising, as a woman.
Marti Noxon
Woman
Experience
Bachelor
Once
Morally
Only
Compromising
Could
Never
Felt
Proud
After
Again
Really
Watched
You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
Marti Noxon
Love
You
Love Is
Old
About
Like
Sophisticated
Supposed
Ideas
Look
Still
Person
Old Ideas
Really
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