“On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many ...” — Marti Noxon Quote

“On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.”

“I thought about being an actor, and I thought about directing, but writing truly became something I needed to do just to stay sane.”

“I'm a huge fan of Kathryn Bigelow's 'Near Dark.'”

“I'm such a type A doer myself that if someone said I had a month off, I think I'd go crazy and try to organize the vacation resort!”

“I've watched my fair share of 'Housewives.' And I just felt a little dirty afterwards.”

“A great thing, which I don't do enough, is to take a break from producing and try to just take stuff in, like go to the theater.”

“I think divorce doesn't necessarily bring out the best in people.”

“In the late spring of 2008, my wealthy entrepreneurial husband, Elon Musk, the father of my five young sons, filed for divorce. Six weeks later, he texted me to say he was engaged to a gorgeous British actress in her early 20s who had moved to Los Angeles to be with him.”

“Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.”

“If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.”

“The roles that men and women play are no longer the standard traditional roles of way back when but are those of two very individual people living their lives. I think it's been a hard transition in society - just take a look at the divorce rate - to figure out what that means now. How do you resolve that?”

“I never thought in my life, I never really thought I would get married. I watched my parents go through a divorce, and I thought, like, this is just not something people are supposed to do.”