Diablo Cody

Brook Busey Maurio is much better known by her pen name Diablo Cody. She is an American screenwriter, producer and director. Cody first came to fame when she started blogging about the year she spent working as a stripper. A few years later, she achieved critical acclaim for her debut script Juno. She won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Cody is also well-known for creating, writing and producing Showtime’s television series United States of Tara. In addition, it is worth mentioning that her directorial debut, “Paradise”, was released on October 18th 2013.

Date of birth:
14th June, 1978
"I don’t think I ever got the hang of the writers’ room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to – if I did something again, I think I’d want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Best
"Speaking of Twitter, I don’t even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living; now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!"
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Best
"I just go about my life. I’m a mom, I drive an SUV, I go to the grocery store every day. I’m definitely not a celebrity. I always say that I’m a celebrity-adjacent."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Mom
"Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Hope
"It doesn’t matter if they’re in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Women
"You know, it shouldn’t just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories – just to express human experience from a woman’s perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I’m all about representation."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Experience
"I hear that 5 o’clock whistle in my mind like Fred Flintstone and I have to stop. I’m also not much of a morning writer. I have a sweet spot from about 11am to 4pm. But I really work during that time."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Morning
"The primary job for women in Hollywood is still super-attractive actress. That is the most high-profile women’s job in Hollywood."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Women
"Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women’s struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it’s also important to tell stories about women’s triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Women
"If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire ‘best director’ category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make."
― Diablo Cody
Topic(s): Best

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