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Diablo Cody Quotes

I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so I am now well aware of the difficulties women who are rearing children face when they’re also trying to make headway in mainstream of film.

– Diablo Cody

I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You’d be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.

– Diablo Cody

Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word ‘season’ has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers of winter here.

– Diablo Cody

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I’m glad it’s over.

– Diablo Cody

I really just love to open a blank document and spew, whereas with a screenplay I have to be more judicious.

– Diablo Cody

Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

– Diablo Cody

I don’t have a terrible singing voice, but I also wouldn’t call it ‘good.’ I can carry a tune.

– Diablo Cody

My boyfriend is Italian and from New Jersey, so naturally he was thrilled to meet Joe Pesci.

– Diablo Cody

The public’s appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

– Diablo Cody

I don’t think coolness used to be such a commodity among adults. And now it is.

– Diablo Cody

Personally, I consider ‘Titanic’ the most brilliant example of successful counterprogramming; the film actually countered itself by embedding an epic chick flick within a classic disaster movie.

– Diablo Cody

I feel like I’m part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we’re actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

– Diablo Cody

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

– Diablo Cody

I would never consent to a lame publicity stunt at a time when I already want to hide.

– Diablo Cody

I just go about my life. I’m a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I’m definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I’m a celebrity-adjacent.

– Diablo Cody

I spent a lot of time staring at the clock in school, so I have that kind of personality.

– Diablo Cody

I don’t think I ever got the hang of the writers’ room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to – if I did something again, I think I’d want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

– Diablo Cody

There’s a weird cloud around you when you’re recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

– Diablo Cody

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