American - Producer | April 4, 1956 -
For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
David E. Kelley
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When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
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If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.
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When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
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But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.
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I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.
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I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
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I don't think I could write a straight drama.
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
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