John Wells
John Wells
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth28 May 1956
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
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I'm interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what's happening to people, and that's because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that.
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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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You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.
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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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Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
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I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power.
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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.