What’s great about Netflix is that everything is kind of instantaneous, and it goes around the world instantly. Everything is released at once. The format can be a little bit whatever you want. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it’s not a white guy’s movie. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something – and you’re not. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
I like people with their own opinions, and I like people who argue with me. It’s very exhausting to be in a room full of people who just nod and smile. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
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. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
Scandal’ has always lived in this dark place with this idea that Washington is filled with this underbelly of monsters, that if the real world understood how dark, twisted and corrupt it really was, they would never agree with our government or want to be part of it. It’s been kind of fun to live in that world. It felt like a fictional world. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
I have all these friends who just love therapy, and I always say the reason that I’m absolutely not in therapy is because then I wouldn’t have anything to write. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that’s supposed to feel shameful is very true. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling – not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things – then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen. Shonda Rhimes Read Quote
