22 Quotes by John Wells

My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

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.

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.

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.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

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.

I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.

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.

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.