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" Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it. "
Julie Plec
Loss
Vampires
Show
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" Write something good that the people like. "
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" If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy. "
Julie Plec
People
Happy
Anniversary
" There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess. "
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Minds
People
Rain
" 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. "
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Think
Love
Me
" There's a lot of storylines over the years where you feel like it's maybe meant to be more important than it ends up being, and that's because we jump ship, and you gracefully extricate yourself from that as well as you can. "
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You
Yourself
Feel
" I learned that getting a movie made in Hollywood is a near impossibility, and the process can be a wild adventure. TV is a lot more consistently productive - no offense to the beautiful world of feature film. "
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Beautiful
World
Process
" I remember, my freshman year of college, sitting in my TV room at the end of my dorm hallway with one other girl watching the premiere of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And then, a year later, walking into a room packed with college students watching '90210,' and I thought, 'I wonder what it must be like to be part of a phenomenon like that.' "
Julie Plec
College
End
Walking
" When you're dealing with long-distance relationships, it's a relationship played out over technology. When you're in high school, it's because you're not supposed to act on those impulses yet. So some of my favorite relationships in drama are based in people that can't really be together. "
Julie Plec
School
Relationship
Technology
" I watched a lot of soap operas, when I was growing up, and a lot of those great serialized soap dramas. "
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Growing
Great
Up
" The supernatural world, the sci-fi world - they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death. "
Julie Plec
Death
World
Give
" Of every movie that I've seen multiple times, of every TV show that I was obsessed with, I don't think I was ever obsessed with anything more than 'Flowers in the Attic,' which I read 13 times between fourth grade and senior year. "
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Flowers
Think
Year
" I remember just weeping my way through the 'Friday Night Lights' finale with my best friend and just being so happy all the way through because it was so beautiful. "
Julie Plec
Best Friend
Way
Beautiful
" The problem with ratings is that you can give yourself a million reasons why they are what they are. "
Julie Plec
Why
You
Yourself
" I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once. "
Julie Plec
Knowledge
Deep
Science
" I think that when you're exploring themes of humanity and what defines a hero and what makes us our best self and what makes us our worst self, you're going to stumble into territories of societal issues and that kind of thing. Sometimes you have accidents where you're not trying, but then the opportunity just presents itself. and you lean into it. "
Julie Plec
Self
Hero
Opportunity
" When you're the showrunner, you're the person that's in control of most of the details, and to be able to take all that and then to step right behind the camera and to have a direct line of communication with the crew and with the actors - to not be delivering that through another person - is pretty freeing and extremely stimulating. "
Julie Plec
Step
Camera
Communication
" It doesn't matter if these characters are supposed to be together forever: if their chemistry gets stale, you want somebody to die, you want to put somebody in a coma, you want to write them off the show - anything to save you. "
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You
Want
Together
" 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. "
Julie Plec
Perception
Story
Character
" I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person. "
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Person
Religious
Pray
" When you have to spread heroism across too many players, you don't get to really dig deep into each of them as much as you'd want to. "
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Want
Deep
Dig
" I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning. "
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I Can
Sun
Morning
" 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. "
Julie Plec
Coffee
Beauty
Best
" A long-running show leaves behind a legacy of storytellers and their relationship with the audience. "
Julie Plec
Behind
Audience
Relationship
" The joke of being a showrunner is that people ask how you get it all done, and you don't. The list of things I don't get done in a given day is longer than the list of things I do. And one of the things that's first to go is watching dailies. "
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You
Go
Done
" 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. "
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Feel
You
Fans
" You're supposed to be writing from experience - experience with people, with reading, seeing some homeless guy on the street and making up some story of him in your head. If you never see any of that or have those conversations or even sleep enough to have vivid dreams, then what are you writing about? "
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You
Sleep
Reading
" We have a rule: if you're killing off a series regular, you have to tell them first. If you're killing off a person temporarily, you have to warn them before the script comes out. "
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You
First
Tell
" I look at 'Friday Night Lights' as one of my all-time favorite series finales, and that is what you want. After all the roads you've traveled with these people, you just want to know that they're going to be happy. I'm a big believer in shows that make that choice. "
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Be Happy
People
Night
" I read 'Tiger Beat' and 'Bop' from the time I was 9, 10, 11 years old. I loved movies. I saw 'E.T.' seven times. I used to yell at people who called me when 'L.A. Law' was on because they should know better. So I just have been so in love with the business of Hollywood since I can remember. "
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Love
People
Time
" There is no definitive end to anybody's story when you're dealing with the fluidity of chemistry, because when it gets stale, you want out. "
Julie Plec
End
Chemistry
You