And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years’ time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon. William Devane Read Quote
And all of Laura’s stuff, what they wrote originally wasn’t as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that’s what she would have done. William Devane Read Quote
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you’re a viewer and you miss a week you don’t know what’s going on. William Devane Read Quote
Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they’re individualized to an extent that you can still follow what’s going on if you miss a week. William Devane Read Quote
I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. William Devane Read Quote
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have. William Devane Read Quote
I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that. William Devane Read Quote
Joey, my older brother, had his own TV show in the ’50s, along with Cathy Callahan. William Devane Read Quote
I knew with The West Wing that that wasn’t going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring. William Devane Read Quote
David was the kind of guy who was totally supportive of the actors and instructed the writing staff to trust the actor’s instincts, since after all, it’s the actors playing the character. William Devane Read Quote
