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
fun mean different
What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: Its all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.
thinking needs comedy
I think a lot of the romantic comedies need to catch up with what's actually kind of happening.
reading night play
But, yes, I learned everything working in theater. I learned the importance of community - I was constantly going to play readings, stand-up nights, improv. nights.
fall kissing thinking
I think in a lot of romantic comedies it ends with a kiss, and I feel like in modern day relationships, and maybe just my own experience, it starts with a kiss and then all sort of falls apart and then comes together.
valentine holiday home
I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.
lying cookies monsters
I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.
people want boxes
People want to put women in one box, and Im interested in how women can be everything at once.
character actors able
Part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium. We almost always get it as written, and then, we throw some improvs in or some alternatives.
fun character broken
In a show that has so many neurotic, broken beta characters, it's always fun to bring in a character who's really confident in themselves.
character writing littles
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
writing feelings mischievous
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
girl real different
The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres 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.
honesty character female
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
writing men years
If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a Men in Entertainment issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.