Elizabeth Meriwether
Elizabeth Meriwether
Elizabeth Hughes Meriwetheris an American playwright and screenwriter, television showrunner, producer, and writer. She is known for the 2010 play Oliver Parker!, the 2011 romantic comedy film No Strings Attached, and the sitcom New Girl for Fox, starring Zooey Deschanel...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth7 April 1981
CityMiami, FL
CountryUnited States of America
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Funny women are honest women.
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I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
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Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.
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I love that song 'I Could Have Danced All Night' from 'My Fair Lady' so much. I love that song because watching it as a kid, it was such an unbridled expression of joy.
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People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.
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The striking thing about 'New Girl' is that under all the comedy, there's something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways.
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There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
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Please God, I hope my experience in downtown theater isn't over, because I'd love to keep making weird plays. I can't wait for Charles Isherwood to call my next play 'sit-com-y' and tell me to stick to writing television.
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I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
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I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
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It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.
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I had this temp receptionist job in New York, and I kind of hated it, and in the morning I would come out of the subway and just walk along the New York streets with all these people around me and kind of sing to myself. Like, 'She's gonna make it!'
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I think so much of writing is an instinct, or a feel for a scene, or a feel for a character. You have to put into words the word 'tone,' which I think is thrown around a lot and can mean a hundred different things, but communicating that to other people is definitely a challenge.