Quotes by Michael Patrick King

Michael Patrick King

‘Sex and the City’ is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It’s the reason the whole thing took off.

Cities

Girl

Sex

‘Sex and The City’ was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham – but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

New York

Running

Sex

Every character when born is a stereotype.

Born

Character

Stereotype

Here’s what happens – you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then… people’s reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it’s a compliment.

Compliment

People

Years

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Love

Math

Problem

I don’t wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

Knows

My Time

Watches

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

Diversity

Emotion

Enjoy

I think I would love a shot at remaking ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ as daunting as it is. I still think it’s fantastic. I love the ’30s comedies because they’re allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

Philadelphia

Stories

Thinking

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there’s always pressure. What else can you come up with?

Challenges

Pressure

Trying

I’m happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

Church

Empty

Smell

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Art

Baby

Born

Challenges

Change

Character

Church

Cities

Compliment

Directors

Dirty

Diversity

Doe

Doors

Emotion

Empty

Enjoy

Falling In Love

Firsts

Fun

Gay

Girl

Heart

House

Knows

Labels

Laughter

Letting Go

Love

Math

Mean

Men

Mistake

Mom

Months

My Time

Needs

Nests

New York

Night

Okay

People

Philadelphia

Pilots

Pressure

Problem

Rooms

Running

Self

Sex

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Quotes by Michael Patrick King

Michael Patrick King

‘Sex and the City’ is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It’s the reason the whole thing took off.

‘Sex and The City’ was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham – but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

Every character when born is a stereotype.

Here’s what happens – you create something in the moment that you feel will be good, and then… people’s reactions to it or people referencing it years later, it’s a compliment.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

I don’t wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.

I really enjoy women and I totally understand and applaud the diversity that they have in terms of their emotions and intellects and vulnerability and strengths.

I think I would love a shot at remaking ‘The Philadelphia Story,’ as daunting as it is. I still think it’s fantastic. I love the ’30s comedies because they’re allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

I try not to repeat a story. I try not to repeat an emotion. I want it to be all sort of new for the viewers and to challenge myself as a writer, so there’s always pressure. What else can you come up with?

I’m happiest in an empty church. I love the smell of a church.

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