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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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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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

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Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure. – Alastair Campbell

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Theres no such thing as failure – just waiting for success. – John Osborne

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Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst. – Eric Ries

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I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne

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