David Shore Quotations

Directing is a very all-consuming job. What you want to do there, as you're coming down the final road, is to just sit back and enjoy and let the wind flow through your hair. When you're directing, you're sitting there going, "I need to make this shot. How many hours do we have left in the day? How many hours behind are we?" You're just constantly worried about doing the job.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

You make decisions and choices, and you're never going to know if they're the ideal choices, but you make them and you make the most of them.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in team. There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.

I think you have to do the stories that interest you and hope an audience likes it, rather than doing stories that you think the audience will like, whether you like them or not. I think there has to be something that you find compelling and interesting, and then hopefully an audience will agree with you.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.

There are a lot of explorations on TV of romantic relationships, and some are good and some are bad. I think there are very few explorations of male friendship that' s not just a wingman type friendship and not just an opportunity for humor, but that really explores two friends and their relationship.

Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.

People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't.

We want to play with the fact that she's still in love with him, but she knows it's a disaster and he's still in love with her and isn't quite so aware of the disaster nature of it.

There is a procedural spine, but I wouldn't watch it for the medical stories. Frankly, it would bore me.

We've resisted a lot of weird stories because they don't fit the show.

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

FOX, to their credit, changed it. I will never again thank a network for changing a character.

I think these options are awful. I think they've got to throw this away and go back and look at it again.

We have an entire neighborhood completely engulfed in noise and a runway protection zone. I have people that would gladly go and tear up that pavement and carry it away for free.

We get picked apart. So you have to be careful - and you have to have thick skin.

The quarter obviously was very strong, ahead of pretty much everybody's expectations.

What's widely interpreted as being likable is caring and soft and fuzzy and I just think that's boring. People don't want to watch a guy who's hateful. That's a tricky thing - to make a guy interesting and difficult and troubled and flawed but not hateful.

The show is not about his personal life, ... but you get curious about that, so we wanted to get a greater glimpse into who this guy was. It's really tricky to find someone to play opposite him, to stand up to him, somebody that you would believe this sort of character would be interested in, and would be interested in this character.

They may not want to consider that alternative but the people do. The letter writing and the petitions will continue.

The reruns have done better than those first few episodes did. So I'm really not that worried about it because the numbers have stayed up.

It's great having somebody that can deliver the humor.

does that emotional stuff really well. She's just plays it in a simple way, in a convincing way. Without turning things into melodrama, she sucks you in and makes you want to cry for her.

Everybody has idiots at their job, and those idiots are talked about when they leave the room. House just calls them idiots before they leave the room. But it's not about what House says; it's about what he does. He's heroic, but he doesn't care what people think. And those blue eyes don't hurt.

It's somewhat disappointing. With some of the newer products that they have, they're working on larger transactions and larger transactions, by definition, take longer.

It's not a fit that people would have necessarily predicted, but it's worked out very nicely. And every week it keeps getting a little better.

The revenue growth, or the lack thereof, continues to be disappointing. It's not grim, but it's discouraging.

Their errors have been costly to Martin County taxpayers, and an escalating seven-year disaster for the neighborhood in the runway protection zone and airport users,

I do think there is a 15-year-old boy in that character, but with the power of an adult.