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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
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Drama
Definitely
Detective
True Detective
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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
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Directed
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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
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Theater
Trained
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
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Believer
Effort
Labor
Unions
Big Believer
Collective
Gets
Value
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I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.
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Labor
Teachers
Union
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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
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Believing
Colored
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If you don't have nerves and a little trepidation about any new project, then I don't think you're really alive.
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Alive
Nerves
Trepidation
Project
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Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
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Hope People Will
Producing
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You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
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Complicated
Wonderful
Particularly
Performance
Material
Requires
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I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
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Awards
Fortunate
Recognition
Received
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As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.
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Optimistic
Disabled
Darkest
Situations
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I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student.
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Design
Carnegie
Became
Directing
Student
Production
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You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.
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Acting
Approach
Different Ways
Correctly
Mix
Styles
Wants
Ways
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I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
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Solitude
New Story
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
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Arrogance
Extraordinary
Great Things
Horrible
Horrible Things
Optimism
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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Humor
Difficult
Painless
Family Power Always
Barbed
Expense
None
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You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.
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Goldman Sachs
Pressure
Decisions
Companies
Demonize
Leads
Reasons
Returns
Stock
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I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
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Complicated
Groups
Theatre
Happening
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It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets.
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Outlets
You Can Do It
Cable
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People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.
John Wells /
Extraordinary
Me Talent People
Wandering
Meryl
Meryl Streep
People Say
Unbelievably
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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager.
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Adult
Exact
Suddenly
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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces.
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Happy
Smile
Adopted
Certain
Faces
Time Wife Me
Smile Time Me
Certain Way
Head
Parents
Laugh
Looked
Move
Studying
Tell
Ways
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