Occupation: Screenwriter Birth: July 9, 1957
The ability to be writing towards something that was actually going to be a whole series was a really big lure..
With the casting in Israel, sometimes there were four or five people, that you could just flip a coin and choose from, that would have been all terri….
That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around. I love the idea of having a cast ….
The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, loo….
I really enjoy the pastiche storytelling of watching separate stories slowly collide with one another. The audience gets to participate in trying to ….
The depth of talent in Israel is just spectacular. I was very excited by it because when you cast in LA, you tend to see a lot of the same faces on l….
In the shows I've done serialized storytelling with, there are big open questions, but you like every episode to be identifiable as what it is. It's ….
All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way..
Tou don't have to spoon feed things to the audience. They have to work at things. Oftentimes, with binge-able stuff, second and third viewings are re….
I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else..
Now, the relationship the storyteller has with the audience is a much higher quality relationship. You treat them with a lot more intelligence becaus….
Even the most loyal viewers of a show would only watch one out of three episodes. As someone who made television, I always found that hard to believe….
You can very often start a new season with a lot more viewers than you had, leaving off the season before. It's a chance to pull the show into a trai….