Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Lynn Rhimesis a television producer and writer. Rhimes is the creator, head writer, executive producer, and showrunner of the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice and the political thriller series Scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth13 January 1970
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
doctors medical relationship
This isn't a traditional medical drama. I've always said from the beginning, we're a relationship show with surgery. It's never about the patients. It's about how the doctors feel about the patients.
bowl episode knowing planned possible super whether
I planned the episode knowing that it was possible that it could be the Super Bowl episode, but also knowing that we would do the episode whether or not it was on Super Bowl Sunday.
streaming
There is no longer one way to consume TV. Some shows you want to watch live, some shows you only discover through streaming, some shows you just feel you need to DVR.
sort
It's about surgery. It's our show sort of on speed.
last slot time watching
For us, not having a time slot last year, and now all of you watching ... has been great.
leading meant men
It meant we could have two leading men and two leading men in very different ways.
bit certainly complain expect happens names people room spent time viewers web wishing
The Web allows people to know our names and what we look like. As a writer, you don't expect to be recognizable to anybody. And it's certainly not your goal. But I spent so much time wishing to have the show, and wishing that it would be a success, that I certainly can't complain about anything that happens after that. The viewers feel a little bit a part of the writer's room in that sense.
began freaked instinct press
When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
reading like-being-alone long
I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.
imagination limits
The only limit to success is your own imagination.
badass drawing people
At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don't keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That's how we're made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them
forever unexpected steady
The expected is what keeps us steady. It's the unexpected that changes our lives forever.
optimism choices brilliant
Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.
not-alone
You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone.