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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Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
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I never thought of myself as a writer.
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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.
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I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process.
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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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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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The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
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When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
