David E. Kelley Quotes

• You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

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• You learn more when things go wrong.

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• When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

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• When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn’t feel laboring, that’s usually a good sign for me.

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• When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that’s a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn’t right.

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• The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

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• So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

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• People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they’re at the movies or they’re at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can’t count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.

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• One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, ‘How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he’s not so innocent?’ It’s a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.

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• My court skills may have atrophied.

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• It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

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• If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I’m private or internal or don’t emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don’t do it for the 30 people I’m in the room with

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• I’ve never really told jokes. I’m not good at it.

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• I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

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• I never thought of myself as a writer.

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• I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it’s our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

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• I miss Denny Crane.

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• I don’t think it’s that strange that a show has sort of a bumpy beginning. It’s just part and parcel of the process.

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• I don’t think I could write a straight drama.

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• For me, I’m happy to succeed on any network.

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David E. Kelley (25)

Birth:	4th April, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer, Producer, Screenwriter

About

David Edward Kelley was born in Waterville, Maine. He is an American lawyer, screenwriter and producer, known as the creator of Picket Fences, Chicago Hope, The Practice, Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Boston Legal, and Harry's Law as well as several films. He graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He received his Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. He began working for a Boston law firm, mostly dealing with real estate and minor criminal cases.

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