More - John Wells Quotes

We're dealing with fictional characters, and so it's difficult to convey to the audience the sense of urgency. This is the right thing to do for the cast and the audience and the material.

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 Audience

Brad is multifaceted, he can throw the ball well on any type of pass and can take off and run with it too. He'll be on his game when we play Tech.

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We did take a look, this spring and summer, when reporters started showing up to testify and one went to prison, and we said, 'Wait a second, do we want to keep doing this?' ... But we thought the investigation would go all the way to Friday. And we monitored things pretty closely in early September because we didn't want to end up in an awkward situation. We could have moved stories around earlier if we had to.

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In 'Doom,' (you have) a wonderful cinematic venue; it's atmospheric and moody and scary. So you know the genre you're in, but you still have to craft a complete story.

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We've spent the entire year going back and forth on that question and hearing from people, what they thought, people passionate on one side and another, and have only in the last couple of days made that decision. Which we certainly won't share with you because it would be no fun ... but we have passionate advocates for both candidates in the writers' room and in the producing group, and it's been quite the brawl we've had.

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If you go back and watch [the live episode of 'ER'] on the Season 4 DVD set,

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John was so wonderful in the episodes that the best homage we could make to his contribution to the show was to let people see the last days of his work.

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The series has celebrated from the beginning in (creator/former executive producer) Aaron (Sorkin)'s conception, the remarkable strength of American democracy. And one of the things that's most dramatic about American democracy is the peaceful passing of power from one leader to another. And we thought that was a really wonderful way to sort of end the series.

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 Beginning

The series has celebrated from the beginning ... the remarkable strength of American democracy, and part of that ... is the peaceful passing of power from one leader to another. And we thought that was a really wonderful way to sort of end the series, the storytelling of it. So as the numbers were declining, we started to think ... we'd conclude the series at its natural place.

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 Beginning

We had planned out the entire rest of the season, and it didn't end up being what we thought it was going to be. We have been rewriting frantically over the last couple of weeks.

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 Rest