Julie Plec Quotes

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Julie Plec

Profession : Producer

Birth : May 26, 1972

There's something about two people coming together in the rain that is the ultimate expression of love in the minds of most audiences, I guess.

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What's funny is, I was always certain that I couldn't be a director because there are things about the physics of camera and lighting that I fundamentally cannot wrap my head around.

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There's something about a supernatural universe that you would think would actually make it easier to create tension and build conflict and have big scares and big ideas and big sequences. And that's true in a lot of ways. You can pick the best idea out of a hat.

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In a non-supernatural universe, there's just character, and it's humanity and human beings and how they relate to each other.

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Humanity has both its beautiful and its ugly sides.

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'Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.

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Don't do another show just because someone thinks that there's a dollar to be earned there. Do it because you love the characters, and you love the world, and you really, truly feel both the fans and you as a storyteller can benefit from having the second show.

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TV is really, really, really hard work. You sacrifice a lot of your personal life, a lot of your sanity, just to do one show.

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Happiness is not necessarily a drama magnet.

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I feel like Caroline Forbes is such a crucial element... on 'The Vampire Diaries.'

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I grew up as an avid reader. I would go to the library and check out 40 books a week. Some of them were smarty books; most of them were 'Sweet Valley High' and young teen romance.

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God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.

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You're supposed to be writing from experience - experience with people, with reading, seeing some homeless guy on the street and making up some story of him in your head. If you never see any of that or have those conversations or even sleep enough to have vivid dreams, then what are you writing about?

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I don't like villains who are just villains. People who are just there to be bad - ugh - so annoying.

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I had a moment where I wrote a movie script, and it was my first movie job, and I was very excited to do it, and my only goal was really not to get fired off of it.

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Actors have their own processes, and if you want to be respectful of their process, you've got to communicate with them in the language of their process, and keeping that all straight is a little bit of a head-scratcher.

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I didn't get paid to write professionally until my first episode of 'Kyle XY,' which was the fourth episode of the first season.

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I do all these panels where people are always talking about the lack of female directors, and I have a lot of opinions on that.

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In junior high, when we got our first VCR, I used to tape four soaps a day. I was a diehard 'General Hospital' fan from when I was nine to 25.

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