John Wells
John Wells
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth28 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
family grew humor none painless power
I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
disabled generally humor lives
As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
fortunate received
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
mix people styles sure wants work
You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.
experience
My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
five hope people producing
Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
believer collective gets unions
I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
became carnegie design directing
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
love trained
I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
exact family role suddenly
As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
material requires
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.