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
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We have an entire neighborhood completely engulfed in noise and a runway protection zone. I have people that would gladly go and tear up that pavement and carry it away for free.
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You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.
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People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.
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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.
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They may not want to consider that alternative but the people do. The letter writing and the petitions will continue.
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Everybody has idiots at their job, and those idiots are talked about when they leave the room. House just calls them idiots before they leave the room. But it's not about what House says; it's about what he does. He's heroic, but he doesn't care what people think. And those blue eyes don't hurt.
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It's not a fit that people would have necessarily predicted, but it's worked out very nicely. And every week it keeps getting a little better.
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I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.
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We get picked apart. So you have to be careful - and you have to have thick skin.
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Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the wind flow through your hair. When you're directing, you're sitting there going, "I need to make this shot. How many hours do we have left in the day? How many hours behind are we?" You're just constantly worried about doing the job.
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You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.
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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.
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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.
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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."