I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I fol…

- Jenji Kohan

You want everyone to be a full character. No one is just evil, or very few people are, hopefully. They're characters, so you want to flush them out. …

- Jenji Kohan

I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a genius and just a lovely soul, and I wanted her voice …

- Jenji Kohan

I'm always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about e…

- Jenji Kohan

Even during the casting process, the pools of talent are so deep when you have a call for Latin women or black women or a middle-aged woman because t…

- Jenji Kohan

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

- Jenji Kohan

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 y…

- Jenji Kohan

As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be investe…

- Jenji Kohan

You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don't want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it r…

- Jenji Kohan