I think of feminism as more of a political ideology..

I don't see the country audience looking forward to an out male singer. There are rumors about people but no one ever confirms because there is a tre….

Women who just don't like each other because the other one is a woman and "women don't like each other" myth - that's not interesting to me at all. H….

If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike..

I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all of a sudden realize that things have changed. Yo….

Always, in all circumstances, wear comfortable shoes. You never know when you may have to run for your life..

You're allowed to make things for women on television and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something d….

We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need mo….

I don't think any studio - it was a long shot at the time - but I don't think any studio in a million years would make 'Thelma and Louise' right now.….

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 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..

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?.

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….

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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 ….