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“I would be Jesse Martin ..., but not to be his character, just so I could be Jesse Martin and sing like Jesse Martin for a day.”

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I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I felt like him. You thought to yourself, 'Well, you can't really be Superman.' You couldn't really be Batman - Batman was a really dark figure. I identified with Barry Allen's hopefulness.

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To me, there's still nothing more thrilling than, every week, people getting to see another chapter in this story that you're telling.

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You have to always try to think about them like real people first, and not just heroes. They have to be real characters. As…

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There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general.

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For me, the romantic comedies I love are the ones that pay homage to the genre, but also find their ways to twist it…

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I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.

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For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special…

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The most important decision you can make as a showrunner when you're doing a pilot is who's in it and who's directing it.

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There's even more blending of genres happening. They blend sci-fi with action, or family drama with a mystery show. People don't want to just do the same thing that everybody's done a thousand times before, and that's probably a big part of it. I think you're also seeing television and features speak to each other. You see it happen in…

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