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

The world will provide you with every imaginable obstacle, but the one most difficult to overcome will be the lack of faith in yourself. Leave it to ….

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't s….

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

It's a tough time for screenwriters right now, because fewer movies are getting made. I'm enjoying television so much. It offers opportunities for wr….

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it t….

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other..

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

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hill….

The movie I've watched a million times is 'A Face in the Crowd,' directed by Elia Kazan, starring Andy Griffith and Patricia Neal. I first saw this m….

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 posse….

Would you have a friend who talks to you the way you talk to yourself?.

You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of movies that women can get made, as lo….

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it jus….

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 ….

One of the reasons I wanted to do a show about Nashville in Nashville was because when I lived here, the hardest thing to go out and hear was country….

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming….

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..

My advice is that if you really want to be a screenwriter, get out here and be ready to take no for an answer many times until you find your way thro….

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice..

You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive ….