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I love working with actors, and it's all been based on my being trained in the theater.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.
- John Wells
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One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
- John Wells
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I'm a big believer in the value of labor unions and with what collective effort gets people.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.
- John Wells
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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.
- John Wells
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I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.
- John Wells
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