” When you’re doing a series, you’re really in a zone. You’re thinking about those characters and their situations in a free-floating way all the time. They live with you all the time. So it’s just as natural as breathing to be having ideas and thinking about what they’re thinking about. “
” Series television is kind of intensive in terms of time. You fall hard for TV writing, but it’s almost love-hate. You’re under pressure all the time, but that pressure gets interesting things out of you that are, you know, mysterious. “
” I loved the whole idea, first of all, of what friendship is. Very often, there are people that somehow you don’t know how to declare that you are their friend, but you are their friend. That happens in a lot in high school. And outside of high school. “
” I don’t think of myself as a producer. In television, it’s part of the business – if you progress and become successful as a writer, you’re called a writer-producer. What that means is that you have a lot of say in casting and behind-the-scenes stuff. But I’m just a writer. “
” The discovery I made was that, really, in America, if you went to high school in our country, it doesn’t really matter where you went to high school. In a funny way, all high schools are the same. “
” As a writer who has collaborated on projects, you give your life over to that project. “
” For me, being a writer, you want to communicate with people, but if your goal is that every person is going to love what you do, then you’re always going to be disappointed. “
” I think you end up writing things you like. I like seeing actors playing two different parts at the same time. I think it’s interesting. It kind of shows you two sides of a person. “
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