Quote by Melissa Rosenberg
One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of e

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

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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

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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

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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

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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible that is, that one is male and the other female. – Anna Quindlen

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. – John Dewey

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Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success. – Rickey Henderson

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You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater – why the better it is for all of us. – Jerome Lawrence

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