Darren Star
Darren Star
Darren Bennett Staris an American producer, director and writer for film and television. He is best known for creating the television series Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sex and the City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 July 1961
CityPotomac, MD
CountryUnited States of America
age prism ultimately
'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.
execution hard jokes laugh performance style
This is a show without a laugh track. The rhythm's different. It's not the hard jokes that you write in a sitcom. It's a different style of writing and execution and performance and everything.
execution hard jokes laugh performance style
This is a show without a laugh track, ... The rhythm's different. It's not the hard jokes that you write in a sitcom. It's a different style of writing and execution and performance and everything.
As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
coming humor truthful
When I did 'Sex and the City,' it was like, 'Let's do a comedy where the humor is not coming from innuendo but from the a truthful place. This is a show where we're going to be able to say and do what we want.'
art certain energy home love modern totally
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
life
In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.
great realized
I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see actors and see what that talent is... it wasn't me.
broadcast death hearing sample
Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.
affair grew love park
I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
work
I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
accepted ended hoping major sophomore time ucla usc
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.
generation line people relating seems tapping universal
In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.
certainly creative ego flip people stuff tension
Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.