Amy Sherman-Palladino

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.

I think I would be making a mistake to actively try and just do everything completely different from 'Gilmore Girls.'

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.

Well, I have no time for therapy.

Families can be the most detrimental things to have in your life. They are sometimes the most poisonous relationships that people have. Sometimes family is the thing that keeps you from ever achieving what you want to achieve, and yet people hold it and hold it and grab it and try to fix it and twist it and turn it.

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.

To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.

I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my drama.

You simply cannot do a sitcom by committee. It will not work. You've got to have one or two clean, creative voices in charge, and there's got to be some faith by the studio and network in those people to make the right choices.

Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.