Quotes by

Melissa Rosenberg

Ive started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and weve got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. Its for NBC, its called Afterthought, and its science fiction-ish. Thats fun. – Melissa Rosenberg

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and its our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, its a challenge – but if youre not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. Youre just taking up space. – Melissa Rosenberg

My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for Twilight, although I got some in there. That was fun! Theres just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups. – Melissa Rosenberg

I love Charlie, Billy Burkes character. Writing for him is so spectacular, hes so funny and wry and every scene hes in he just takes. Theres a scene in Eclipse where Bella tells him shes a virgin, and its the funniest, most awkward scene Ive ever seen on film. – Melissa Rosenberg

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But Ive written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, Ive done it all. – Melissa Rosenberg

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that theyre a lead. I think thats a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience. – Melissa Rosenberg

With Twilight, you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With Penoza, we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, theres a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes. – Melissa Rosenberg