delicate point of view

I know that I was always more interested in the characters in Disney that were the bad characters, the evil characters. Because they were more fun, but also because they seemed more multidimensional. Like, why is Ursula [in The Little Mermaid] trying to capture the voices of young girls? That’s wild. But she’s got the best songs! Who is she?

"I kind of tried to imagine what would happen in order to make you just never be able to speak about something. When I was thinking about that, I realized that there are people right now taking a twenty-minute break in between shifts at a hospital who are having this kind of trauma happen to them right now that they will probably never want to speak about, I kind of thought that this is the opportunity to maybe tell that story." TS on the inspiration behind epiphany

"[in 2020] I was getting all this mail from first responders saying, thank you for inspiring me to go into a career in emergency medicine …But it was also, they were very confessional. They were letting me know how hard it was…[Dr. Carter] was a touchstone character and they wanted to let me know what was going on out there. And it was really heavy to get all that mail…There's a show to be talked about here about what's happening in healthcare…My intentionality came from wanting to put a spotlight back on this community..." NW on the inspiration behind The Pitt

“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?” ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers