Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director’s vision, but television is a writer’s medium.

When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.

When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn’t seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

I’ve learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.

I don’t understand why people don’t understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.