Jennifer Konner Quotes

Jennifer Konner

Profession : Director

Birth : May 16, 1971

It is very hard work, but I am a big believer in not micromanaging; I hire really, really talented people and trust them to do their jobs.

Jennifer Konner

I'd quit my job at a production company and was like, 'I'm going to be a writer...' I became a temp, and it was the mid-nineties, when there was the Internet boom, and the normal group of graduates ready to fill in didn't exist.

Jennifer Konner

I was like, 'I don't get out of bed for less than $21 an hour!'... I temped at Chanel and the New York Stock Exchange, and then I'd come home and write.

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To be unkind to anyone. There's no room for that. Not on my watch.

Jennifer Konner

Lena Dunham texts me every morning the minute she wakes up to make sure I'm alive.

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You know what my job is? I'm Mrs. Garrett from 'Facts of Life.'

Jennifer Konner

To be a little divisive is kind of hot.

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I've worked on sets that were unhappy.

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I'm always shocked by what people react to.

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The truth is that, to me, a likeable character is a character that is really flawed, so I don't know what people mean when they say 'likable.'

Jennifer Konner

We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.

Jennifer Konner

When we're in production, it's 14 hours a day, and we couldn't be less involved in the world. My friends all hate me during that time because I can't see anyone. We say goodbye to everything.

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I just went insane. I just, like, couldn't get off of Twitter. It was like, 'I guess this is where I live now - talking about Emily Gould on Twitter'.

Jennifer Konner

There were no surprises, because when you sell a pilot based on a pitch, no matter how great the script is, it's going to look different and feel different from what someone imagines in their head. There will always be varying degrees of disappointment or confusion.

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I've worked with Judd since 'Undeclared,' and once you work with Judd you never stop working with Judd.

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People will fight hard for something they want or something they don't want, that they don't believe a character would do.

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Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude from the streets. Or you're the woman who was in prison.

Jennifer Konner

The origin of 'Lenny Letter,' it started because Lena went on her book tour, and she had these audiences, young women, really diverse and looking for guidance.

Jennifer Konner

When we worked on 'Girls,' we've had some really meaningful dialogue with our fans and with critics and really learned a lot of things. Like, on the question of diversity, we heard people, and we responded, which is very different from, like, 'Hey fatty, what are you doing on TV?' And that's what we're trying to avoid.

Jennifer Konner

The first time I saw Lena Dunham was in 'Tiny Furniture.'

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