8 Quotes by Thomas Schlamme

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    I'm a voyeur. I say that with no embarrassment. If I could have a superpower, being invisible would be it, no question. I'm fascinated by human behavior; observing people and seeing how much story gets told without a lot of dialogue, and how much our brain fills in.

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    I'm engaged: I'm interested in other people. I think that's just as important as knowing how to do the job.

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    'Survivor' was, to me, an absolute reaction that the audience was having to the sort of staid nature of narrative drama on television.

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    I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.

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    When we were doing 'Sports Night' and 'West Wing' at the same time, I thought I was the luckiest guy in the world because my two interests were politics and sports.

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