Jason Katims Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until you actually saw it exist on film.”

“That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is so important, all the time, every day. Every day of your life, you're changing and making decisions and everything is an emergency to you.”

“'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something familiar for the audience. It grabbed people's interest.”

“When I first pitched 'Parenthood' to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer - who made the movie - I was going through the pitch of what my version was going to be. I noticed anytime I said something different than what was in the movie version, their eyes lit up. They got excited not by what they'd already done, but by what was going to be different.”

“Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.”

“If nobody has really done a show about people in their twenties that has been successful, why?”

“I'm not somebody who goes online after every episode airs because that would be, for me, getting too much feedback and too much information.”

“The 'Moonlighting' tension of the couple that obviously never can get together, there's an innate sort of fun and tension in that.”

“The environment in a writer's room, I've really come to feel, should be some form of democracy.”

“The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.”