David Shore Interview

The Globe and Mail have an interview with House creator, David Shore. Here’s a snippet.

When I was working as a lawyer, I started thinking that I should move to Hollywood and be funny (turned out I was more dramatic than funny). So I quit law, got in my car, drove to L.A. and then started writing. Which is really a stupid order to do things (at least the “start writing” part).

Aside from semi-amusing pieces for the law-school paper, I’d never written anything, and had no reason to think I had any skill at this. But I figured if I fell on my face, I’d go back to law, and five years later, my time in L.A. would just be an amusing anecdote to tell clients. Three years later, I got a job on Due South (my first full-time writing job) and ironically had to move back to Toronto.