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All Quotes by author - Julie Plec
" Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher. "
Want
You
Got
" A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience. "
Behind
Audience
Relationship
" An actor's only perception is of their character, and they're looking at one piece. A writer is looking at the entire story. They're going to see things that the writer didn't see because they're only looking through their lens. "
Perception
Story
Character
" As a fan, I hated most of 'The Day After Tomorrow' movie except for the part where Emmy Rossum and Jake Gyllenhaal were stuck in the library, and I thought, 'Oh, I like this now.' There's something about bringing people together in odd circumstances and exploring the petri dish of what happens. "
People
Tomorrow
Day
" As you live your life and accumulate friends, both IRL and on social media, ask yourself, are you a bully too? "
Live
Social Media
You
" Because I was such a student of pop culture growing up, I love that on the list of things that I got to work on in my first years out of college were 'Scream' and 'Dawson's Creek' and, ultimately now, 'The Vampire Diaries,' which generations below me grew up on and can quote. I love that. I think that is the coolest thing in the world. "
Think
Love
Me
" Cynicism doesn't have its way in series finales. My emotional desire when I watch a series come to an end is to be crying and laughing and cheering as the final credits roll, feeling like I just got delivered the happy ending, whether the plot ends happily or not. "
End
Desire
Way
" Daily, I visualize the smart-ass troll who lives deep in my subconscious, and I pelt him with rainbows and unicorns. I fight a battle against my judgmental thoughts. And when an opportunity arises to gain acceptance or popularity at the expense of someone else, I zip it. It's not easy. "
Opportunity
Acceptance
Daily
" Don't do another show just because someone thinks that there's a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the characters, and you love the world, and you really, truly feel both the fans and you as a storyteller can benefit from having the second show. "
Feel
You
Fans
" Every night, I will write until I'm done. Until my eyes are burning and tearing, and I can't see the computer screen anymore, till I finish the script, till I get to the point where I'm happy stopping, till I get everything off my plate, because I hate going to bed with a full plate. It makes me very neurotic. "
Eyes
Hate
Me
" Fans are always talking about endgame as though endgame has been chosen from minute 1. I don't know that you could talk to a single series creator that would say confidently 'Where I started is where I finished, and there was no way in hell I was going to stray from that path.' 'Dawson's' being the perfect example. "
Path
You
Talking
" 'Ghost World' was such an incredibly difficult episode to find the right tone for. I remember at the time it was very divisive because some people hated it - they thought it was cheesy and hokey - and I loved it. When I saw it, I cried my head off, and I was so happy. "
People
Thought
Time
" God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there. "
God
Bless
Hollywood
" Growing up, I remember watching 'Little House on the Prairie' and 'L.A. Law' and being so obsessed with it. "
Growing
Up
Growing Up
" Happiness is not necessarily a drama magnet. "
Happiness
Drama
Necessarily
" Hollywood, Twitter, our friends - they all contribute to a community of snark. The more we engage in the way that everyone else engages, the more followers, likes, and RTs we get. But we can't rail against the cyberbullies without acknowledging what we also contribute to a culture of cruelty. "
Community
Cruelty
Friends
" Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides. "
Humanity
Beautiful
Both
" I always talk about Meredith and Derrick from 'Grey's Anatomy,' and I loved them the most when they sort of opened and closed each episode with them in bed, happy with each other, and you didn't need to insert extra conflict into them, because there was plenty of conflict in the show. So they were this port in the storm of conflict. "
Storm
Need
Conflict
" I call it 'The Breakfast Club' philosophy. There's something about being trapped in a dire situation with a group of people that you would never normally be trapped with. "
Breakfast
Situation
You
" I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning. "
I Can
Sun
Morning
" I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season. "
Until
First
Get
" I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that. "
Opinions
Where
Always
" I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying. "
Like
Annoying
Bad
" I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person. "
Person
Religious
Pray
" I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.' "
I Feel
Feel
Vampire
" If I walk into the editing room, it's six hours lost. I'm massaging frames. I'm, like, 'Oh, take six frames off that shot. Hit the music cue right there.' I will drive everybody crazy if left to my own devices in that room. So I try to do everything I can by staying out of the way. "
Music
Crazy
Walk
" If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy. "
People
Happy
Anniversary
" If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's your responsibility to double down and make it OK in storytelling to be inclusive and tolerant. "
Responsibility
Saying
Culture
" If you write a good line, you write a good line, and the best line wins in television. It doesn't matter if you're the guy who gets the coffee or if you're the showrunner - best line wins. That's the beauty of television collaboration. "
Coffee
Beauty
Best
" I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance. "
Week
High
Young
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