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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. "
Believe
Enjoy
Every Day
" But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart. "
Were
He
Viewers
" Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. "
Chemistry
You
Producer
" For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network. "
Happy
Me
Network
" I don't think I could write a straight drama. "
Think
Drama
Could
" 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. "
Process
Beginning
Strange
" 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. "
Friends
Day
Me
" 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. "
Law
Think
More
" I miss Denny Crane. "
Miss
" I never thought of myself as a writer. "
Thought
Writer
Myself
" 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. "
Succeed
People
Happy
" I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury. "
Law
Changes
Luxury
" I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it. "
Never
Jokes
Really
" My court skills may have atrophied. "
May
Skills
Court
" One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing. "
Questions
Good
People
" People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out. "
People
Night
Dinner
" So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to. "
Write
Writer
I Think
" Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. "
School
Me
Imagination
" The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. "
Others
Go
Law
" The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. "
Way
Feel
I Am
" We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. "
Social
Which
Examination
" 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. "
Maybe
Push
Right
" When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. "
Feel
Writing
Me
" When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you. "
Show
Create
You
" You learn more when things go wrong. "
Wrong
Go
Learn
" 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. "
Relationship
Challenge
Honor
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