Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.
— Shonda Rhimes
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.
You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
I like working more than I like being at home. Facing that fact is incredibly difficult to handle, because what kind of person likes working more than being at home?
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.
Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.
When I'm hard at work, when I'm deep in it, there is no other feeling. For me, my work is at all times building a nation out of thin air. It is manning the troops. It is painting a canvas. It is hitting every high note. It is running a marathon. It is being Beyonce. And it is all of those things at the same time.
Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well.
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.
