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Shonda Rhimes

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first: 2017-10-09
most recent: 2017-10-09
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“That's true. But people think of you as a singular creator. Talk a little bit about the idea of team, because we talked about it earlier, is how do you create a team now in this environment when you're creating in an entertainment context?”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so when you're thinking about creating in this environment, you have a team around you. I mean, a lot of you've got one of those names that is just a single name, like Shonda, essentially, and you called your site Shonda. You do. Don't make a face. It's true.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's not that I like thinking of creating that zone. I discovered we were already in that zone because every 12-year-old I know has seen 300 episodes of Gray's Anatomy in a row. And I was like, they're already binging this stuff.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did. I binged it. It was tough, but I did it because I couldn't wait to see what was going to happen, and it was too stressful to not know. Although I did turn it off when I got really freaked out and stressed, and then I jumped ahead. Pretty much everything I watch on binging.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I binge pretty much everything. If I'm watching something, I'm binging it. So I binge the good place recently, handmade stale.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And she didn't understand that because it felt very relevant to her. It's the same kind of story she's been watching. And she loved it. It's not that the stories are becoming very different. It's that she can watch all the episodes at once. It's that she can watch them all on her iPad when I think she's supposed to be studying. It's that, you know, she would watch them on her phone if she wanted to. Everything's available to you now. And that is what's different”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that's true. I do think the delivery and how fast you can get it is something. You know, my 15-year-old threw open the door the other day to my room and screamed, freaks and geeks only has one season. Can they make another one? And I sort of tried to explain to her that it happened a long time ago. Right.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Truly. I mean, I never worried about ratings before. I don't have to worry about them now. I never worried about that sort of thing. It's literally the idea that there's a totally open road there, that Ted has provided in an absolutely clear landscape to do whatever I want.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it wasn't just as a creator. I have a company. And I wanted to pick my company up and take it someplace else. I took 30 people with me. But it's also not like we left it behind. I have six shows. Over at ABC, it really was about doing something new and trying something new after being someplace for 15 years. I reached a point where, and I really do love what I'm doing, it's actually very fun. Now we're television to be very fun. It was that I could solve lots of problems in my sleep. Like there was nothing new in terms of the challenges. And I thought, you know, when you reach that point where you're very comfortable, you're that comfortable.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's not that I felt formulaic. That is what network television is. A drama is 42 minutes and 19 seconds, a comedy is 22 minutes and whatever. And that is what you have to stay in. There's no way of getting out of that because that is how it works.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I love the idea that you can put out something and it can be all over the world in an instant. Instead of waiting for platform after platform after platform, I also love the creative freedom that's available there. There's no restrictions, there's no broadcast centers in practices, there's no, it has to be this long. I can make something that's an hour and a half long, I can make something that's 15 minutes long. There's no, we want to see more of this because that's what you've done before. It's an open road.”
2017-10-09 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Why Shonda Rhimes left ABC for Netflix (Live) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT