American - Producer | May 28, 1956 -
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
John Wells
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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
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Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
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I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
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As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
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I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
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