David E. Kelley

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. ”

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ”

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. ”

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”