“Criticism can be a real help. Not always, but if it’s helpful criticism, who says it, what they say, and where I like to take that criticism.” ~Gabby Gruen Gabby Gruen is appearing on StoryBeat for the second time. He has been a writer and producer...
“My philosophy, three words. Always say yes. When somebody asks you, do you want to move to la? Yes. Do you want to be production director? Yes. Do you want to do television documentaries? Yes. That’s the way you’re ever going to learn or grow, say...
“Yeah, like I said, we like to say with scripted, you write the script and then shoot the show. With reality, you shoot the show and then write the script. And that’s kind of how it works. So you just, you have to just hone it down and hone it down and...
“I wasn’t trying to be Buddy Holly or Elvis Presley or anything like that, but I felt that I needed to learn exactly what they were doing as at least a platform to start to have the dexterity to create within those things. And in those days we were all...
“What fulfills me about writing is getting stuff out. I want to say something, I want to tell people something. I want to tell. A story that amuses people, that engages people, and that teaches people something about themselves and something about the world, and...