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
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What I find interesting is that there are some people out there who take the show very seriously. But then I think about how strongly I felt about 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and how emotional I was about what happened to those characters. So going from being a fan to somebody who has her own show, I definitely respect it. You come into people's homes in a very personal way on a weekly basis. They get involved. But the general success of the show, that sort of loyalty and rage over why did you let Meredith and George sleep together, it's fantastic but it's not something I necessarily expected.
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I can feel it when there's too much medical and not enough personal, and that's the most important balance to keep. We've done episodes where there's a ton of personal and not very much medical. Works just fine. But when the medical sort of overtakes the personal, the show doesn't feel like the show.
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It's about surgery. It's our show sort of on speed.
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It's still definitely 'Grey's Anatomy.' I don't think it's anything like that other show. We do surgeries. It's about surgery. It's our show sort of on speed, I guess.
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For us, not having a time slot last year, and now all of you watching ... has been great.
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I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
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When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Being after 'Desperate Housewives' has allowed a large number of people to discover our show. But they stay and come back each week because these characters feel like people you know. And no matter what race they are, you see yourself in their problems.
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I'm a post-Civil Rights baby. I'm not trying to make a point. This is just the way the world looks now.
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A hashtag is not helping. A hashtag is not a movement. A hashtag does not make you Dr King. A hashtag does not change anything. It's a hashtag.
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I never, ever pay attention to the ratings. I stopped paying attention to the ratings somewhere around season two or three of Grey's. It's something I have no control over, so I don't even pay attention.