“I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.” PeopleThinkingImportantCan DoCompanyCreativeImportant ThingsProductiveColleaguesCreative People Author:John Landgraf
“We also have a piece about the Mayflower, but it's just a very different, very gritty, very character-driven version of why those people were on that boat and what the experience was like for them, emotionally, physically and spiritually, and also the Native Americans and what the state of Native American society was at that time.” PeopleDifferentStatesCharacterPiecesDrivenVersionsBoatNativeNative AmericanAmerican SocietyMayflower Author:John Landgraf
“Well, equity matters. I hope that most of us believe that we actually would all benefit from living in a more equitable society. If that's not happening, we're squandering human potential. We want to make the best television possible. We should be drawing on the entire available pool of storytellers and directors, and we should be expanding that pool and trying to hire the very, very, very best people. That's our job.” PeopleTryingBelievePoolStorytellerEquityHuman Potential Author:John Landgraf
“Not ever having been an agent myself, my sense is that upper-level agents who have the most power, who can move people through the system more easily, are less willing to take on the volume of work to break somebody new. And then lower-level people, if they are willing to take on somebody new, they don't necessarily have as much sway, and it's harder for them to push somebody through.” PeopleMovingBreak Author:John Landgraf
“Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.” PeopleWayRealUseRealityFormWinningStarsChallengesJourneyPossibilityTelevisionExcitedComplicatedDramaticReality Television Author:John Landgraf
