John Wells
John Wells
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth28 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
fortunate received
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
came colored
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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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.
became carnegie design directing
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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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
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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.
love trained
I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
material requires
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
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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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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
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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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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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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.