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" There's a reason a happy ending is called an ending. The trick of a television storyteller is to find all the rivers and mountains and valleys on the way to that ending. "

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" 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. "

Julie Plec

Opinions

Where

Always

" The vampire is the new James Dean. "

" 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. "

" If people love 'TVD' in 20 years the way they still love 'Buffy' today - on its 20th anniversary - I will be happy. "

" I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for decades. "

Julie Plec

Career

Television

" There are a lot of things you do in a supernatural universe that can toe the line and cross the line. "

" 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. "

" When you're telling taut, tight storytelling that has any kind of built-in plot twist elements, you tend to want to stack everything up on top of itself as opposed to letting things breathe and be languid in terms of the passage of time. "

" I would never say no to continuing to explore the - somebody coined the phrase for me the other day, which I love - 'TVDU,' 'The 'Vampire Diaries' Universe.' I have no desire to exploit it, but I also know that there are plenty of opportunities for stories left to be told. "

" It took me some time to realize television, for someone like me, was the perfect medium. I like to produce, I like to be detail-orientated, I like to be in charge of a lot of things, and I like to be a storyteller. It's kind of the perfect gig for someone like me. "

Julie Plec

Time

Perfect

" When you have an ensemble where characters pair off so easily, it becomes extremely isolating in the story world. You can end up with two actors who have not seen each other face to face all season long. "

" 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. "

" I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person. "

" 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. "

" I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.' "

" 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. "

" I wanted to work in Hollywood. I was captivated by it. I read 'Premiere Magazine' and 'Movieline Magazine' and 'Us' before it was a weekly magazine. "

" 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. "

" To me, TV relationships work at their best when there is a deep longing and feelings and interest and sexual attraction that is unrequitable. "

Julie Plec

Interest

Work

" I can stay up until the sun's up, no problem, but I do not like getting up in the morning. "

" 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. "

" Speaking only for myself, the ideal finale to me is 'Friday Night Lights,' where you have loved and worshipped a show for all these years, you get to come back, celebrate the characters, finish up their journeys, and send everyone out with a feeling of, 'My God, I'm so grateful that I got to know these people.' "

" The intensity of the story breaking on 'Vampire' has never been easy. Every week, you're starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There's no formula; there's no franchise to hang your hat on. "

" The way that 'Vampire' was born was over a lunch. We got asked to do the show. A week later, we were hired. A week later, we were writing it. The minute we handed it in, it was ordered. The minute we shot it, it was picked up. Then we started working. There was never any, like, 'OK, here's what this show is...' We had to figure it out as we went. "

" I wanted people to talk about the finale of 'The Vampire Diaries' as one of their favorites, which is a lofty ambition, but it certainly drove me hard creatively to make sure that we had put as much thought and love into it as we possibly could. "

Julie Plec

Love

Ambition

" I'm not a morning person, and yet production is a morning person's game. "

" I used to sneak 'General Hospital' when I was a kid. My cousin was my babysitter, and she watched it, so I got hooked on it. I wasn't supposed to be watching it, but I was so obsessed with it that I'd find ways, even as an 8-year-old, to get into that. "

" 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. "

" TV writing - for me, at least - is half original voice and half an embodiment and a representation of the spirit of the actors you're writing for. "

" Kevin Williamson and I wrote a show about loss and grief that just so happened to have vampires in it. "