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Jason Katims

(1960) Screenwriter United States

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Jason Katims is a screenwriter from the United States.

Quick Facts About Jason Katims

Born: November 30, 1960
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Known for: Roswell

About Jason Katims

Jason Katims is an American television writer, producer, and playwright. He is best known as the creator of several television series, including Relativity (1996), Roswell (1999–2002), Friday Night Lights (2006–2011), Parenthood (2010–2015), About a Boy (2014–2015) and Rise (2018).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

Quotes by Jason Katims · Page 2

I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house.…

After

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A lot of times as writers, you want to come up with the best possible story, and you bend it according to…

About

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The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel…

Characters

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Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that…

Always

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To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most…

Conflict

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Many of the things that I have written on have focused, at least a big part of the story, on adolescents. I…

Adolescent

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I came to NBC on 'Friday Night Lights' and they have supported that show and found ways - unprecedented ways - to…

Able

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We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to…

Actor

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That's the thing that I've always kind of kept in the back of my head in writing about teens, that everything is…

About

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What's great is that I keep hearing from people who are discovering 'Friday Night Lights' because of streaming and Netflix and Hulu…

Because

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When I first pitched 'Parenthood' to Ron Howard and Brian Grazer - who made the movie - I was going through the…

Anytime

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What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little…

About

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I think that the one thing about 'Parenthood' is that, while it's never been a huge out-of-the-box hit, it's always been solid.…

About

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In 'Friday Night Lights,' the relationship between the coach and his wife, that marriage was something that you couldn't really understand until…

Actually

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I feel like not only are 'Parenthood' fans passionate, but that passion has grown over the run of the show and people…

Air

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