iz Friedman: (when asked whether she prefers comedies or dramas) I prefer the darker ones. I like comedy a lot and I do love to laugh but I love dramatic story telling. I love a good story and a good twist. I think we`ve done some great comedies but by the time these things are done I`ve watched them four or five times and sometimes those laughs get a little thin, after about the fifth viewing.
Liz Friedman: Xena works as a straight ahead tits-and-ass action show for lack of a more intellectual term. It`s an action show but the lead is first of all a woman and second of all a woman who never apologizes for being strong. It features two women who have a very intense relationship, who do not spend all of their time talking about either their sanitary protection or their boyfriends. In this way it ends up being, compared to what is typically on television, I think, fairly subversive. I don`t think we could get away with all that if it weren`t working on the fact that it is entertaining.
Liz's favorite line from Patton is, "It's not about dying for your country, it's about making the other bastard die for his". She twisted this concept in the Xena episode "To Helicon and Back", having Gabrielle forced into leading the Amazons in battle.
Liz Friedman was the one who was responsible for the introduction of the funny disclaimers on most of the episodes of Hercules and Xena. Liz and coordinating producer Bernadette Joyce did most of them.
Liz was spoofed in the two "Hercules" episodes "Yes Virginia, There Is a Hercules" and "For Those of You Just Joining Us". Liz actually disliked the way she was portrayed, but she thought it was great that "she" looked like Hudson Leick.
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