Unveiling Jeffrey Lieber: The Untold Secrets Behind His Masterful Storytelling
Scott: Here’s another Tweet you did responding to a question: “Two ways into TV. Number one, make splash in other mediums, capitalized, parenthesis, make graphic novel, left‑wing website. Number two, get a member already in TV.” So that’s about originality and the freshness of the idea and the writing, right?
Jeff: Yeah, I mean, I had an assistant for many years who is now on staff on “Necessary Roughness.” He’s doing a great job. He’s doing a stunning job over there. I’ve got a new one now and actually, my job with these people is to try to teach them what I can and hopefully won’t pick the stuff that I do wrong. Help them transition from my assistant to a job somewhere. When it comes time to staff up for a TV show, there’s 100 people who are way up top in the co‑EP producer level and as you go down the ranks towards staff writers there’s thousands and thousands. The question is, “How do you get seen?” It all comes out of having one piece of material that really is what you do incredibly well and it’s in a voice that is, in the first 10 pages, “Oh, that’s cool.” That’s a pretty interesting trick.
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