Quote

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.