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John Wells

American Producer

Born: May 28, 1956

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People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before. John Wells

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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

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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

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As an adult, you think of yourself as being someone else when you're away from your family, but when you come back to your family, you suddenly find yourself back in the exact same role that you always had in your family as a child and as a teenager. John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama. John Wells

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I come from labor country. My mom was a teacher and was very involved in the teachers' union. John Wells

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

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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

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Both of our children are adopted, and my wife and I didn't go out of ways to find kids that looked like us. We were just happy to have some kids. And people tell me all the time that they look like us, and that's because they learn to smile and laugh and move their head a certain way from studying their parents' faces. John Wells

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

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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

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You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different. John Wells

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

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