David E. Kelley Professions : Writer Born : April 4, 1956 Browse All Authors Top 29 quotes by David E. Kelley You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive. David E. Kelley challenges long mean It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold. David E. Kelley remote-control succeed people I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics. David E. Kelley ethics law thinking When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right. David E. Kelley claws scratches stories The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with. David E. Kelley three writing two I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury. David E. Kelley nice law thinking I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it. David E. Kelley jokes The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense. David E. Kelley passion simple dream We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social. David E. Kelley ethical examination issues I never thought of myself as a writer. David E. Kelley I don't think it's that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It's just part and parcel of the process. David E. Kelley strange process thinking In retrospect, I think it's a plus, because now we've been able to go back and spend extra time on each of those episodes and make them better. David E. Kelley extra-time retrospect thinking Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. David E. Kelley imagination teacher school One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing. David E. Kelley everyday people ideas The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. David E. Kelley encouragement law school If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with. David E. Kelley interviews people rooms Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it. David E. Kelley chemistry plans producers You learn more when things go wrong. David E. Kelley when-things-go-wrong When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you. David E. Kelley character children people When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley process stories writing Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
