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Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week.
William Devane
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I didn't care about that because I'm not a diplomatic person to begin with. I just went along with things and did what I wanted to do because I knew they had to shoot their 12 pages a day. And when they realized that I didn't alter the text they really didn't mind what I did.
William Devane
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The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.
William Devane
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I try to watch only real things, which basically amounts to C-Span for me. I like real people in real situations. I learn from that.
William Devane
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And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a show that told the story of people over many years' time and that was greatly enjoyable. Though nowadays that is frowned upon.
William Devane
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I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.
William Devane
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Donna Mills came on the show as a female antagonist, about a year before, so now they wanted to have a male antagonist. I was cast as a Senator to shake things up.
William Devane
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I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red herring.
William Devane
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The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.
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The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to come up with good stories. It'll be interesting to see how they do. The bottom line is, it starts with the writers and ends with the writers.
William Devane
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I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
William Devane
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Networks don't want a show with a continuing story. There's no backend potential.
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