Quote of the Day (Film’s Diablo Cody, on How Characters Resemble Their Creators)

“Just as humans are created from elaborate matrices of ancestral traits, fictional characters, too, resemble the people who create them. Even stock romantic-comedy heroines (who are written and rewritten in Hollywood boardrooms for maximum ‘likability’) carry traces of DNA from the hands that craft them. Even at our most inventive, we are what we write.”—Oscar-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody (Juno), “The Narcissist Decade,” Newsweek, Dec. 5, 2011