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Write what you’re scared about.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Scared
Writing
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My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'
Jason Katims / Television Writer
First Job
So-Called
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People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Kids
Autism
Growing Up
Thinking
Grow Up
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Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Actors
Children
Parenthood
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'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Child Actors
Parenthood
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If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Twenties
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The frustrating thing about Friday Night Lights is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Light
Night
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The frustrating thing about 'Friday Night Lights' is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Night People Know
Respond
Lights
More People
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The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Get Together
Innate
Tension
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To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Feet
Interesting
People
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What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Pushing
Further
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I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Feedback
Online
Episode
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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Parenthood
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One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Crisis
Life Family Health
Immediate
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I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Parenthood
Solid
The One Thing
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The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Work Good Me
Work Good Night
Watched
Lights
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In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Marriage
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Coach
Exist
Lights
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Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Five
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Night
Less
Episode
Having
Learned
Lights
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'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Familiar
Parenthood
People Story Something
Grabbed
Launch
Title
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You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Arguing
Terrible
Life Great Together
Mistakes
Breaking
Breaking Up
Teenagers
Triumphs
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I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Parenthood
Grown
Invested
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I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Jobs
College
Publishing
Writing
Desk
Earned
Freelance
Graduated
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Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Honestly
Tuning
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What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Discovering
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Streaming
Great Night People
Hulu
Lights
Vibrant
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The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Parenthood
Privilege
Writers
Lights
Telling
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It's so funny because a lot of times we'll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you're having a discussion with your wife: 'I don't know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she's not getting any younger.'
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Discussion
Funny Time Your
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How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Edgy
Appeal
Broader
Cable
Compete
Network
Network Television
Specific
Tread
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There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Alchemy
Editors
Embedded
Parenthood
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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
According
Bend
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That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Making Decisions
Teens
Life Time Always
Life Time Day
Emergency
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As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Work Great Myself
Ending
Lights
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Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Ongoing
Pitching
Streaming
Story Lines
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I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why theyre making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Mistake
People
Thinking
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I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Best
Flaws
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Trying
World
Everybody
Feel
Understand
Why
Basically
Demons
Watch
Even
Ghosts
Making
See
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I sort of was inspired by 'Friday Night Lights,' where it was a very different show, but similar in that they were both large ensemble dramas where you had many stories going on at once. I wanted to do a show that shared that element, and that's really why I wanted to develop 'Parenthood' as a series.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Ensemble
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Inspired
Parenthood
Dramas
Element
Lights
Shared
Similar
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Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I think that in that period of life, so much happens, and it's the period of life where you're forming into an adult. In certain ways, you're already an adult and in certain ways you're still a kid.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Focused
Adolescent
Big Part
Forming
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We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Both Sides
Cameras
Coverage
Drama
Moments
Parenthood
Sides
Authentic
Shot
Normally
Overlap
Scripted
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I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Men
Drama
Husband
Parent
Unexpected
Life Man Wife
Life Man Your
Challenge
Marriages
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I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Champagne
Crew
Drank
Good Bye
Parenthood
Truck
Camera
Cast
Directed
Writers
Episode
Final
Toast
Wrapped
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I came to NBC on 'Friday Night Lights' and they have supported that show and found ways - unprecedented ways - to keep it on the air for a long time. And when I came to them with the idea of doing 'Parenthood,' they not only supported me in doing it but also got behind it in such a way that we were able to put together this incredible cast.
Jason Katims / Television Writer
Friday
Friday Night
Friday Night Lights
Nbc
Parenthood
Unprecedented
Time Together Me
Cast
Time Together Night
Lights
Such A Way
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