The Creative Process: Inside House

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
7:00 pm PT
Los Angeles

Watch a video clip and see backstage photos below

"I'm often asked what I think should happen to House or what I hope will happen. I don't really mind what it is, I only care about the how. That's my concern, that's my job in a way, to worry about the how, not the what. Good ideas or good stories, in my mind it's all the execution—it's all how the script is written, not what happens.” So said Hugh Laurie as he addressed last season’s story lines on the Emmy-winning series House.
 
Laurie, along with costars Robert Sean Leonard, Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, and executive producers Greg Yaitanes, Katie Jacobs, and David Shore, appeared at the Paley Center in LA for Inside the Creative Process: House, a screening and panel moderated by syndicated columnist Ray Richmond.
 
An intense, beautifully rendered clip package created for the evening screened prior to the discussion, where the cast and creative team’s camaraderie was evident. Director and coexecutive producer Greg Yaitanes discussed the experience of working on the series: "One of the great things about this show, as opposed to some of the other shows I've worked on, is there is a sense of community and there's a sense of support where everybody is looking after everybody and is 100 percent there when they're off-camera for someone else's dialogue. And one of the things that I love, that attracted me to come here for this season, was that in the 100th episode everybody's still striving to make it as fresh and original as the first day that they were at the table."
 
Season six was on the mind of many in the sold-out audience that evening. David Shore shared his thoughts on where the current story arc will pick up at the start of the next season: "Katie's going to be directing the two-hour season premiere, which is basically a movie that follows House through that institution. It takes place over a much longer period of time than we're used to. And it's about his life in there, his search for getting better."
 
"We don't want to shake things up for the sake of shaking things up," David says. "We just want to keep exploring this character... we're just seeing where his life progresses and where it goes.”
 
Welcome news for House fans everywhere.

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A young Hugh Laurie appeared in The Secret Policeman's Third Ball (1987) and The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball (1989). This summer, we're screening both of these concert films as part of The Secret Policeman's Film Festival.
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