Winnie Holzman Quotations

But that being said, absolutely there are stories that women want to hear about themselves. They want those stories. Sometimes you don't realize you're starving for something until you've had a taste of it. A story where the women are not incidental, but they are the story.

He had this feeling, which turned out to be true, that he and I might connect, and we really connected big-time,

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

There is something at the heart of 'The Wizard of Oz' that is about feminine empowerment. I never set out to do that as a goal - write a musical about feminine empowerment. But the wizard, the male character, is a charlatan and a fraud. The witches have real power.

It's not old-fashioned in the sense that it explores a friendship between two women who really grow and mature during the course of the show and are very interesting people. I'm not sure there are other musicals that do that.

His focus was different. He was, actually, writing a novel. We were trying to delight an audience, and to pull an audience along through a complicated tale.

I'm a little Jewish girl from Long Island, but when I listened to Tina Turner, I pictured myself in a mini-dress, dancing like Tina Turner. It's inevitable.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.

This life has been a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received actual instructions on where to go and what to do.

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.