49 Quotes by David Shore

If you are not willing to look stupid, nothing great is ever going to happen to you.

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

Things have their place. You wouldn't hang dreidels from a Christmas tree.

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."