David Shore
David Shore
David Shoreis a Canadian writer, and former lawyer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue and Due South, also producing many episodes of the latter. He went on to create the critically acclaimed series House and more recently, Battle Creek and Sneaky Pete...
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth3 July 1959
caring difficult flawed fuzzy guy likable people soft tricky troubled watch widely
What's widely interpreted as being likable is caring and soft and fuzzy and I just think that's boring. People don't want to watch a guy who's hateful. That's a tricky thing - to make a guy interesting and difficult and troubled and flawed but not hateful.
bore medical watch
There is a procedural spine, but I wouldn't watch it for the medical stories. Frankly, it would bore me.
ahead obviously quarter
The quarter obviously was very strong, ahead of pretty much everybody's expectations.
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We want to play with the fact that she's still in love with him, but she knows it's a disaster and he's still in love with her and isn't quite so aware of the disaster nature of it.
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Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.
people effort rewards
People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
suffering care planets
If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
friendship reason pleasure
You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
thinking interesting likes
I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.
safety noise runway
Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.
punishment words-of-wisdom rooms
The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."
decision choices knows
You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.
people asking too-late
You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.
thinking issues should
If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.