Top 11 Winnie Holzman Quotes

The whole idea of a dream, to me, is a mystery plane. Things are operating there that tell us the real truth. The stuff going on inside us that we don’t express or even know about pours out in our dreams.

The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn’t really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same.

This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn’t really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don’t know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school.

As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project.

I don’t think of myself as a producer. In television, it’s part of the business – if you progress and become successful as a writer, you’re called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I’m just a writer.

In my life, it’s always been about who I’m going to collaborate with. Less important to me is what the subject is.

Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it’s almost love-hate. You’re under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

I consider myself a writer. I always wanted to act, and as a teen, I studied acting devotedly. Eventually, I got writing work, but very little acting work.

The Huntington Theatre has a really fine reputation. I was keenly aware of how well thought of they are and that they develop and support new plays.