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" The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that. "
Jason Katims
Fun
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Get Together
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" The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters. "
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" If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why? "
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" Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like. "
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" In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film. "
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" What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more. "
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" I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series. "
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" Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid. "
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" I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright. "
Jason Katims
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College
" The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me. "
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Lights
Think
Night
" The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy. "
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Room
Feel
" I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best. "
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" A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real. "
Jason Katims
Situation
Best
You
" You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers. "
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Parents
Together
Mistakes
" My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.' "
Jason Katims
First Job
Television
Life
" That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you. "
Jason Katims
Time
Decisions
You
" I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air. "
Jason Katims
People
Passion
Help
" The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it. "
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People
Night
Friday
" I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.' "
Jason Katims
Three
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Party
" People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up. "
Jason Katims
People
Grow
Grow Up
" Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes. "
Jason Katims
Friday
You
Sometimes
" We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved. "
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Drama
Moments
Find
" I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent. "
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Life
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" How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread. "
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Time
Trying
You
" I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information. "
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Who
Information
Too Much