David E. Kelley
David E. Kelley
David Edward Kelleyis an American television writer and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harry's Law as well as several films. Kelley is one of very few screenwriters to have created shows aired on all four top commercial U.S. television networks...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth4 April 1956
CountryUnited States of America
issues examination ethical
We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
thinking extra-time retrospect
In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better.
dream passion simple
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.
nice thinking luxury
I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.
home night 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.
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
thinking law morality
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.
people rooms interviews
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.
people succeed triggers
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.
ideas people everyday
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.
teacher school imagination
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
scratches stories claws
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.
writing thinking people
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
drama writing thinking
I don't think I could write a straight drama.