Graham Yost
Graham Yost
Graham John Yostis a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short-lived drama series Boomtown...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth5 September 1959
CountryCanada
stories villain
No one sees themself as the villain in their story.
jobs best-job doubt
Being a showrunner is tough, but it is incredibly rewarding and it is, without a doubt, the best job I've ever had.
thinking ideas helping
I can't help but always be thinking about ideas.
running kids people
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.
thinking support done
Over the course of television's history, I think fans have done more to save shows and support them than ruin them.
jobs real hey
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
thinking names careers
I'm lucky enough that, in my career, people think that attaching my name to something helps it a little bit.
character people ifs
If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.
dad great-relationship great-dad
I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.
believe thinking television
I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.