David E. Kelley Quotes & Sayings

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

“But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.”

“We also have issue oriented storylines which are an examination of an issue, be it ethical or social.”

“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.”

“When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.”

“People are out of their home on a Saturday night or they're at the movies or they're at dinner and a lot of the people who flip on the television are doing just that. They may have never seen your show before and you can't count on to your audience to be there week in and week out.”

“The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.”

“You learn more when things go wrong.”

“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.”

“One of the most fundamental questions people have about defense attorneys is, 'How can you do that? How can you go to bat everyday for a person that you may not know is guilty but you have a pretty good idea that he's not so innocent?' It's a question that defense attorneys answer for themselves by not addressing.”