People Quotes by Jenji Kohan

Jenji Kohan

As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we’ll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.

Bored

Long

People

Jenji Kohan

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

Children

People

Upset

Jenji Kohan

I don’t set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I’m introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

Character

People

Writing

Jenji Kohan

I’m always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don’t like.

Nexus

People

Together

Jenji Kohan

The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.

Humanity

People

Trying

Jenji Kohan

We did tons of research. We went to visit a prison. We had speakers. We have read tons of supplementary material, books and articles. We are constantly emailing articles around the writers’ room. We have dipped ourselves in prison culture and lore and media, and the experience and the people. We really want to be as informed as possible.

Book

Media

People

Jenji Kohan

We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

Different

Order

People

Jenji Kohan

We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters ’cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

Character

People

Waiting

Jenji Kohan

You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don’t want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.

People

Reality

Thinking

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Badass

Black

Book

Bored

Casting

Challenges

Character

Children

Country

Decision

Depressing

Different

Drama

Dream

Drug

Easter

Eggs

Flare Up

Fun

Girl

Hands

Hot

Humanity

Kids

Latin

Long

Looks

Lying

Media

Moments

Mother

Netflix

Nexus

Nice

Night

Order

People

Pioneers

Real

Reality

School

Sex

Song

Space

Stories

Struggle

Support

Talking

Thinking

Tired

Together

Trying

Upset

Waiting

Want

Way

White

Writing

Years

People Quotes by Jenji Kohan

As long as there are still interesting stories and still interesting people that we want to meet, I can keep it going. But, we all have to be invested. If the room starts getting bored or I start getting restless, then we’ll either have to change something in the show or maybe end it.

First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

I don’t set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I’m introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

I’m always looking for a nexus, where you can put all these diverse people together, see how they respond to one another, see what they learn about each other, and what they like and don’t like.

The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I never thought of the depth of losing your freedom and what that meant. And I was surprised and delighted by ways people maintain their humanity and try to survive.

We fell in love with different people. Looking back, we might have done it in a different order, but we got invested. We really wanted to do the flashbacks because we wanted to explore who these women were on the outside versus the inside, and get a fuller picture of the masks we wear.

We watched these auditions and could only pick one. Sometimes we would add new characters ’cause we wanted to use another actress. There were so many people who were just waiting for something like this.

You spend so much of your life crafting this stuff that you want to laugh in the room. I don’t want to sit there and slit my wrists. And I think it reflects reality. People use humor to survive, even in the most horrific situations.

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