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When I really have to push an...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

I gravitate toward the law, I...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

I never thought of myself as ...

I never thought of myself as a writer.

David Kelley 18 quotes

Some of my high school teache...

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

David Kelley 18 quotes

When the stories come easily ...

When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.

David Kelley 18 quotes

It gets harder and harder to ...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

I've never really told jokes....

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

David Kelley 18 quotes

When you create a show, and c...

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

David Kelley 18 quotes

If you interview people or fr...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

You've got to honor your rela...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

But Steven Bochco was smart; ...

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

David Kelley 18 quotes

One of the most fundamental q...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

I don't think it's that stran...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

Chemistry is not anything an ...

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.

David Kelley 18 quotes

But I do believe that in all ...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

People are out of their home ...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

We also have issue oriented s...

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.

David Kelley 18 quotes

The ideal time for writing a ...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

The designer [...] has a pass...

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.

David Kelley 18 quotes

The way I would measure leader...

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

David Kelley 18 quotes

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