One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience. Jason Katims Read Quote
Honestly, I don’t know enough about what’s a good timeslot and what isn’t. Either you have a timeslot where nobody is really tuning in, which isn’t good, or you’re in a good hour, and then you’ve got a lot of competition. Jason Katims Read Quote
Parenthood’ has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors. Jason Katims Read Quote
As much as I thought the end of ‘Friday Night Lights’ was a really great ending, I was one of those people who wanted to make it into a movie. Even though it ultimately didn’t work to do that movie, I did work with some of the other writers and by myself writing a script for that. Jason Katims Read Quote
What’s great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering ‘Friday Night Lights’ because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu and all of these things. Somehow… things don’t get old as fast as they used to. They stay vibrant. Jason Katims Read Quote
Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you’re pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who’s always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs. Jason Katims Read Quote
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. Jason Katims Read Quote
It’s so funny because a lot of times we’ll have these discussions as writers, and you feel like you’re having a discussion with your wife: ‘I don’t know. Are they ready to have another baby? Is it time? Well, she’s not getting any younger.’ Jason Katims Read Quote
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. Jason Katims Read Quote
