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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, sho... by Jason Katims

The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

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Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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