I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else’s expense. It was kind of always about power. John Wells Read Quote
You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances. John Wells Read Quote
You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I’m sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions. John Wells Read Quote
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up. John Wells Read Quote
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student. John Wells Read Quote
I love working with actors, and it’s all been based on my being trained in the theater. John Wells Read Quote
It is harder to get adult, character-driven material on television than it used to be, but there are lots of other places that you can go to sell it. If you can do it for basic cable or pay cable, we have those outlets. John Wells Read Quote
I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers’ union. John Wells Read Quote
I’m interested in working with groups of actors to tell complicated stories about what’s happening to people, and that’s because I came out of the theatre where I worked in ensembles, and I really loved that. John Wells Read Quote
