Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Marta Kauffman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Marta Kauffman.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Marta Kauffman

Marta Fran Kauffman is an American television writer and producer. She is best known as the co-creator of the NBC sitcom Friends with her longtime friend, David Crane. Both Kauffman and Crane were also executive producers of the show, along with Kevin Bright. Kauffman and Crane produced Veronica's Closet and Jesse. From 2005 to 2006 she was an executive producer on Related. Both writers were the creators of the HBO series Dream On. Without Crane, she co-created the Netflix series Grace and Frankie.

Once you hit 40, you can't do it anymore. Who's got this energy to go on three hours of sleep? You just can't do it.
Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.
I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work. — © Marta Kauffman
I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.
To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.
Dramaturgically, you always hear that you want to see things in the moment, you want to see things happen, you don't want to talk about things, but with "Friends," it was more fun when they talked about it.
I will say it's great to be a woman because we're very good at multitasking. I could nurse and cook dinner at the same time. It is juggling. It's juggling and you've got to commit to working on the weekends - I do both.
I was once in a bar with a friend of mine, we were having a drink and a bunch of people walked in and they were talking about how, "It's official, there's going to be a 'Friends' reunion," and I'm sitting there with my friend going, "No, no, there's not."
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