David E. Kelley famous quotes

03-19-2025

We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.
-- David E. Kelley

#Issues #Examination #Ethical
My court skills may have atrophied.
-- David E. Kelley

#Skills #May #Court
So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.
-- David E. Kelley

#Writing #Thinking #People
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
-- David E. Kelley

#Writing #Way #Feels
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Scratches #Stories #Claws
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
-- David E. Kelley

#Writing #Stories #Process
When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.
-- David E. Kelley

#Children #Character #People
You learn more when things go wrong.
-- David E. Kelley

#When Things Go Wrong
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Thinking #Law #Ethics
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#People #Rooms #Interviews
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#People #Succeed #Remote Control
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Ideas #People #Everyday
I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
-- David E. Kelley

#Jokes
I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.
-- David E. Kelley

#Nice #Thinking #Law
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
-- David E. Kelley

#Teacher #School #Imagination
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
-- David E. Kelley

#Encouragement #School #Law
The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.
-- David E. Kelley

#Writing #Two #Three
Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan; you just hope for it.
-- David E. Kelley

#Chemistry #Producers #Plans
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Home #Night #People
But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
-- David E. Kelley

#Believe #Character #Quirky
But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.
-- David E. Kelley

#Smart
For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.
-- David E. Kelley

#Succeed
I don't think I could write a straight drama.
-- David E. Kelley

#Drama #Writing #Thinking
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Thinking #Strange #Process
I never thought of myself as a writer.
-- David E. Kelley
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.
-- David E. Kelley

#Mean #Long #Challenges

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