When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Celebrities meet a lot of people and we just can't maintain them all in our fuddled brains.
People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.
The thing about many celebrities - not all - is that they're fantastic actors.
Everybody wants their fame. They long for it, and I think they don't much care how they get it - to attract attention to themselves.
I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'
I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous.
Some people can handle fame, some can't.
Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.