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TV's job is to make you lean in, and a film's job is to make you lean back.
Greg Berlanti / Film Writer
Lean
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There is nothing I've wanted more, or waited for longer, than to be a father.
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Waited
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In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.
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Please
Tv
General
People More Try
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I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.
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By The Time
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Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
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Fails
Ultimately
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People don't really see television shows and movies as different anymore. They expect the same quality.
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Television Shows
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The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.
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Decision
Directing
Important Decision
Pilot
The Most Important
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I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.
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Character
Would Be
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For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it and tweak it.
Greg Berlanti / Film Writer
Romantic
Genre
Homage
Tweak
Love Romantic Me
Love Me Find
Comedies
Romantic Comedies
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To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.
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Thrilling
Me People Nothing
Chapter
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I have a Twitter profile, but I avoid red carpets and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather no one talk about me ever, and I just get to do my thing. I'm an introvert.
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Introvert
Profile
Red Carpets
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I was a DC fan; The Flash was always my favorite character. He was sort of the most average guy amongst all of these icons, even though he had super speed, you know?
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Flash
Icons
Speed
Amongst
Average Guy
Dc
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The thing that I probably enjoy the most and also am the best at in whatever art form I'm working in is being the protector of the emotional experience of the audience.
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Protector
Art Form
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What I really appreciated about Obama in the last campaign was that he was not reactive, and we're such a reactive culture... It takes a certain strength to be patient and have a plan.
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Appreciated
Be Patient
Patient
Campaign
Reactive
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When we started 'Arrow,' there weren't really a lot of superhero shows in general. And it was a burden on us because it was, 'Are you going to fail or succeed?' And now they're everywhere.
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Burden
Superhero
Arrow
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'Flash' has a family drama element, 'Arrow' has a epic saga/crime element, 'Supergirl' has a young-woman-in-the-city and a workplace element, and 'Legends' is like the Dirty Dozen teaming up.
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Dozen
Drama
Epic
Flash
Legends
Workplace
Arrow
Element
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Early episodes of TV I compare to out-of-town plays. You can make them better. You don't have all the time in the world, but you have time to make them better and improve them as you go along.
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Compare
Episodes
Time Better World
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I think in television there's more of an awareness about a need for more diversity, but there still needs to be great practical strides taken to improve diversity in front of and behind the camera.
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Diversity
Taken
Thinking
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Fan feedback going from a box of letters once every few months to literally tweeting while the show is airing. We are able to get a much quicker response to the choices we're making as storytellers.
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Choices
Fans
Letters
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We did 'Jack & Bobby' in the middle of the Kerry/Bush election. It hurt it a little bit. No matter what we did, everyone thought we were advocating for one person over the other. The stuff I work on is more about the people.
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Advocating
Election
Work People Person
Bobby
Jack
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I think a lot of what I've done is about people feeling as if they are part of the world but also not part of it at the same time. I don't know whether that's from being a gay kid, but I definitely think that resonates with me.
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Time World Gay
Resonates
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You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As people do more and more superhero stuff, the characters are what distinguish it, just like in cop shows.
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Cop
Superhero
Always People More
Always People Real
Be Real
People Real Always
More And More
Real Characters
Real People
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For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.
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Connected
Episodes
Reflected
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I can remember when there were storylines with gay characters on shows like 'Family' and 'Dynasty' and thinking, I have something in common with that person. This was way before the Internet and all the visibility that has brought with it.
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Dynasty
Remember When
Visibility
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If I had to give odds, I would say 30 percent of whatever good fortune I've had in this business has been luck, and 50 percent has been casting - so that's 80 percent right there. And 20 percent is just working really hard and taking risks.
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Casting
Good Fortune
Luck
Odds
Percent
Taking Risks
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There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general.
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Iron
Iron Man
Time Man Me
General
Check
Dc
Marvel
Tried
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Especially with DVRs nowadays, people have their roster. More and more, it's not just, 'I'll watch what's on at 9 P.M.' They have their backlog of the shows they always watch, that they record every week, and it's a matter of, how do you get into that list?
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People Always Matter
List
More And More
Nowadays
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You want to go to a place where you work every day, where you get to tell stories that look and feel like the audience in America that are watching. You're really limited, if you walk into a room and you can just tell stories about that. So, we've been really blessed.
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America
Blessed
Rooms
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It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.
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Cry
Death Time Great
Episode
One Of The Things
Season
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Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle of the edit, watching it for the fifth or sixth time, and we'll be like, "What's that big W on that building? I don't think we can do that. We haven't asked DC." And then, they take it out.
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Running
Guy
Thinking
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I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I felt like him. You thought to yourself, 'Well, you can't really be Superman.' You couldn't really be Batman - Batman was a really dark figure. I identified with Barry Allen's hopefulness.
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Flash
Allen
Barry
Batman
Dc
Identified
Marvel
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'Everwood' I think provides a unique feeling, an emotional experience. And other shows on TV don't have the acting talent to do that. Each one of our actors can do a serious scene and a humorous scene, and can do it all within the same sequence. They can go from a heartbreaking moment to a humorous moment.
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Heartbreaking
Humorous
Sequence
Each One
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That's part of what always fascinated me about the Flash. Yes, he had superpowers, but he wasn't superhuman. He was vulnerable. He could be hurt or killed. He's not getting in a jet. He actually is the jet. So he had this gift, but with it came this risk. And I think that's what makes the character relatable.
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Fascinated
Flash
Jet
Superhuman
Superpowers
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There were moments where Supergirl gets a thrashing in the pilot, where if a man in the 'Flash' or 'Arrow' pilot got beat up, people didn't visibly wince. And I watched in testing, people in the audience really became uncomfortable by the fisticuffs and the action. But then, they were elated and cheering at the end.
Greg Berlanti / Film Writer
Flash
Uncomfortable
Wince
Arrow
Cheering
Elated
Pilot
Visibly
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There are a few reboots I'd love to see that I'd love to have nothing to do with! I'd love to watch just as a viewer. 'Quantum Lea' - someone should bring that back. I'd love to see another 'Star Trek' show on the air. I loved 'Buck Rogers'; someone should do that. But I don't want the responsibility of doing any of those things.
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Quantum
Buck
Rogers
Star Trek
Trek
Viewer
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There's even more blending of genres happening. They blend sci-fi with action, or family drama with a mystery show. People don't want to just do the same thing that everybody's done a thousand times before, and that's probably a big part of it. I think you're also seeing television and features speak to each other. You see it happen in movies, and it starts to get reflected on the small screen.
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Drama
People
Thinking
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