From the first Lauren Luke tutorial I watched, I was completely taken with her. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
As evidenced during my failed audition, I’m a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a ‘Real World’ house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
My feeling for reality TV isn’t ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn’t mean a story isn’t happening. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn’t after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you’ve failed at writing. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
Real Housewives of New Jersey’ has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
I watched the first episode of ‘Survivor’ in the spring of 2000, thinking I would hate it. My natural inclination steers me toward the indoors not only in my actual life but also in the settings of the entertainment I read and watch. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
What ‘Survivor’ is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
I understand how hard it is to force yourself to be someone different. By the end of high school, I had taken to doing my math homework up against a concealed wall during lunch because I was tired of socializing. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn’t be one. Andrea Seigel Read Quote
