Darren Star
Darren Star
Darren Bennett Staris an American producer, director and writer for film and television. He is best known for creating the television series Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sex and the City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 July 1961
CityPotomac, MD
CountryUnited States of America
art certain energy home love modern totally
I love the idea of modern art in a home that isn't totally modern. There's a certain energy that comes out of that juxtaposition.
certainly creative ego flip people stuff tension
Certainly when, you know, you put a lot of creative people together, there's ego and tension and all that stuff comes into play. But on the flip side, there's a lot of camaraderie and closeness.
certainly conscious emotional evolved expressive female funny gravitate lives rich towards watching women
I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.
certainly looking love message women
I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if - there's one thing that is different about 'Sex and the City' and the message that I think has resonated with viewers, especially women. It's that you don't need to get married. You don't really need that love to be fulfilled.
bad characters good guys worst
In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
life
In L.A., you just kind of come and have a nice hiking-yoga-gym life.
affair grew love park
I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
work
I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
accepted ended hoping major sophomore time ucla usc
I never did theater. I was a theater major at USC my first year because I didn't get into the film school. I was biding my time, hoping to be accepted to film school, and I ended up transferring to UCLA my sophomore year.
closed emotional men terms women
Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there.
board existing opportunity realized tv ucla
I've been on the board of UCLA Film and TV School, and I went to UCLA. I realized that the same movie theater that was there when I went to school, 30 years later is the same movie theater in the same condition. There was an opportunity to refurbish an existing room, and I jumped at the opportunity.
As a writer, it is always fun to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes.
age prism ultimately
'Younger' is about reinvention and how age is very much a state of mind. I think the show is ultimately about reinvention. I do think it explores, ultimately, the differences between generations, through the prism of reinvention. That reinvention is possible.
execution hard jokes laugh performance style
This is a show without a laugh track. The rhythm's different. It's not the hard jokes that you write in a sitcom. It's a different style of writing and execution and performance and everything.