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Glen Mazzara [1967-0] American
Rank: 104
Producer, Television producer


Glen Mazzara is an American television producer and writer. He is most well known for his work on The Shield, The Walking Dead and Damien.


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It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.
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A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.
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I went to NYU undergraduate, then for a Master's in English, and got a summer job at St. Vincent's. I was a ward clerk handling everything in an intensive care unit.
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When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.
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Sharing information with employees makes them feel invested.
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The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.
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If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.
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I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.'
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Don't forget, I've been fired by studios; I'm not the studio's guy. I'm a guy who can work with studios, but if you ask any studio, I stand up to these people.
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That's the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.
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I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.
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One of the things I've learned by working on the 'Walking Dead' and other TV shows is to be more tolerant of other people's process.
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