I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
Television was a great place for me to kind of fall on my face and make mistakes and be okay with it and move on.
I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.
My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
TV was my life, growing up. I ran home from school to watch television, and even did my homework with the TV on - my mom had a rule that as long as my grades didn't fall, I was allowed to. So it was my dream to work in television.
I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.
I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.
I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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