"I had always been pretty sure that comedy was about producing a laugh and not a boner. Now I had to produce laughs and boners? When did the rules change?"
— Rachel Dratch (via synecdoche)
"This year we saw many hilarious performances by women, and many idiotic articles from men about how women suddenly became funny. Yes, imagine how great ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ would have been had Mary, Betty White, Cloris Leachman, and Valerie Harper actually been funny. If only Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radner, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus had been able to get a laugh. I guess what I’m saying is, this isn’t the year that women finally became funny. This is the year that men finally pulled their heads out of their asses."
— Matthew Perry, presenting at the 2012 Comedy Awards. (via 30rockasaurus)
"When a beautiful actress is cast in a movie, executives rack their brains to find some kind of flaw in the character she plays that will still allow her to be palatable. She can’t be overweight or not perfect-looking, because who would pay to see that? A female who is not one hundred per cent perfect-looking in every way? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours. So they make her a Klutz. The hundred-per-cent-perfect-looking female is perfect in every way except that she constantly bonks her head on things. She trips and falls and spills soup on her affable date (Josh Lucas. Is that his name? I know it’s two first names. Josh George? Brad Mike? Fred Tom? Yes, it’s Fred Tom). The Klutz clangs into stop signs while riding her bike and knocks over giant displays of fine china in department stores. Despite being five feet nine and weighing a hundred and ten pounds, she is basically like a drunk buffalo who has never been a part of human society. But Fred Tom loves her anyway."
— Mindy Kaling on the women who only exist in romantic comedies | Flick Chicks (via rufustfirefly)
July 30th
08:34
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![Q: How did the opportunity to direct an episode come about?
GETZINGER: I have been on the show since the pilot, and we had been talking about me directing an episode since the beginning. Matt [Weiner] had said, “Well, I can’t promise you anything, but we’ll see how it works out.” Matt is a man of his word and if he says that he believes in you, then he is going to try. He completely went to bat for me and told everybody that he thought I could do it.
Q: Did your previous duties give you a unique insight on directing?
GETZINGER: Working as a script supervisor you get to sit by every director, every day of the show. So I recall every scene. I have gotten to see how every scene has gone camera-wise, how it has gone performance-wise. It’s really like I have been training on the show for a year, which is the greatest training you could have for your first directing job. (via)](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp5klsZllQ1qztqsao1_1280.png)
Q: How did the opportunity to direct an episode come about? GETZINGER: I have been on the show since the pilot, and we had been talking about me directing an episode since the beginning. Matt [Weiner] had said, “Well, I can’t promise you anything, but we’ll see how it works out.” Matt is a man of his word and if he says that he believes in you, then he is going to try. He completely went to bat for me and told everybody that he thought I could do it. Q: Did your previous duties give you a unique insight on directing? GETZINGER: Working as a script supervisor you get to sit by every director, every day of the show. So I recall every scene. I have gotten to see how every scene has gone camera-wise, how it has gone performance-wise. It’s really like I have been training on the show for a year, which is the greatest training you could have for your first directing job. (via)
"They’re harder to find. It’s definitely not because women ain’t funny, because I’m finding the opposite. It’s because there’s fewer of them. The statistical probability of picking up a shitty script, it’s compounded for women. There’s the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there’s less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job. So you dig a little extra-hard, and you end up with a staff that took a few extra meetings and a few extra shitty scripts to read. Now you have a staff that is just as good as the staff you would have had, but happens to be half women. And it seems like the greatest thing in the world, because the world is half women. And the male writers across the board, from top to bottom, in their most private moments drinking with me, when they’re fully licensed to be as misogynist, reactive, old-boy-network as they want, all they can say is, “This turned out to be a great thing."
