Top 33 Jason Katims Quotes

#1. The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.

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#2. If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?

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#3. As much as I thought the end of 'Friday Night Lights' was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn't work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that.

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#4. What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow ... things don't get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant.

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#5. The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.

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#6. Write what you're scared about.

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#7. There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

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#8. What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

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#9. I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people got more invested as the show has gone on. That really does help keep shows on the air.

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#10. In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.

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#11. 'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

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#12. My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

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#13. People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.

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#14. The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

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#15. I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.

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#16. 'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.

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#17. Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

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#18. That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.

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#19. I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid. We've always kept our audience.

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#20. The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.

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#21. The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

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#22. The frustrating thing about 'Friday Night Lights' is I know a lot more people would respond to the show if they saw it.

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#23. It's so funny because a lot of times we'll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you're having a discussion with your wife: 'I don't know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she's not getting any younger.'

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#24. One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

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#25. You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

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#26. How do you do something where you're able to be specific and edgy enough to compete with what the cable networks are doing and, at the same time, appeal to a broader audience? That's the line that everyone in network television is trying to tread.

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#27. To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

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#28. Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.

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#29. Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

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#30. Honestly, I don't know enough about what's a good timeslot and what isn't. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn't good, or you're in a good hour, and then you've got a lot of competition.

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#31. I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

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#32. I did a lot of freelance desk publishing jobs when I graduated from college. I sort of earned a living doing that while I was writing plays, which was what I wanted to do. My hope was to become a playwright.

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#33. A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to what you want to happen. I think one of the things that I always try to think about is what would really happen in a situation, what feels real.

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