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Amy Chozick

Los Angeles, New York

Writer and Executive Producer, The Girls on the Bus at HBO

Contributor at The New York Times

creator/exec producer/showrunner. author, NYT best seller "Chasing Hillary." journalist, @nytimes, @vogue & @wsj

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Articles

  • Jan 13, 2025 | flipboard.com | Amy Chozick

    Live updates: Death toll rises as fire crews in Los Angeles brace for more heavy windsWhat to know about the Los Angeles fires and California windstorm Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more …

  • Jan 13, 2025 | nytimes.com | Amy Chozick

    We got the evacuation alert on Wednesday night. The fire came out of nowhere and threatened to sweep through Hollywood. I pulled our son out of the bathtub. We rushed into the car and drove north, past two other fires, through smoke and sirens, gridlock and chaos, flames on the horizon in all directions. People keep saying the scenes out of Los Angeles look like something from a movie. Except they don't, not really. Movies need a protagonist. Every on-screen apocalypse has a leader. So, where is ours?

  • Oct 27, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Amy Chozick

    Most Jewish-American girls I know met their husbands on JDate.com or at Jewish summer camp. Not me. I picked my husband up at pub in Times Square on St Patrick’s Day. My friend Ellen was engaged to a bloke from Longford and she begged me to come. “You’ll meet an Irish guy!” she said. I resisted. I didn’t know anything about the Irish. I thought it was all green beer and plastic leprechaun hats ... Oh, and Bono. I knew him. Cut to (as we say in Hollywood): Fifteen Years Later.

  • May 30, 2024 | hollywoodreporter.com | Amy Chozick

    The first several weeks in the writers room of The Girls on the Bus, the Max series about female journalists covering a presidential campaign, went like this: “Oh, what if Sadie sleeps with a candidate?” Me: “Absolutely not.” “How about a Democratic strategist?” “Hard no. She cannot sleep with a source.” “Well, what if she falls for the bartender at the Marriott?” Me: “Doesn’t work.

  • May 8, 2024 | vanityfair.com | Amy Chozick

    When I set out to create The Girls on the Bus, I knew what I didn’t want it to be. I didn’t want it to be sanctimonious or high-minded. I didn’t want to portray Great Journalists Speaking Truth to Power. Too many journalism movies and TV shows adopt this holier-than-thou tone. Please watch the trailer for The Post (“What will happen if we don’t publish? We will lose! The country will lose!”).

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Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick @amychozick
13 Jan 25

RT @nytopinion: “People keep saying the scenes out of Los Angeles look like something from a movie. Except they don’t, not really. Movies n…

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Amy Chozick @amychozick
26 Sep 24

RT @DEADLINE: Fifth Season Acquires Rights To Amy Chozick's Upcoming Novel 'Some Part Of Her' https://t.co/kv8M7E65u6

Amy Chozick
Amy Chozick @amychozick
13 Aug 24

RT @EricSchultz: @StreamOnMax and @amychozick prescient as always with this #TheGirlsOnTheBus storyline.