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Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.
The designer ... has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists ... the designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
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.
When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.
It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.
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.
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.
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
I don't think I could write a straight drama.
My court skills may have atrophied.
I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.
For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.