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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Watch: Shonda Rhimes on Raising the Next Generation of Showrunners [Watch (HLS stream): Watch: Shonda Rhimes on Raising the Next Generation of Showrunners](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/z8DMTowq.m3u8) (3:15)  _Published 2015-10-21. The showrunner talks to TIME about how to ensure that the television landscape reflects what the real world looks like_ --- Oct 11, 2023 9:12 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [FIRSTS Shonda Rhimes ](/video/00ANn7Md/) ### FIRSTS Shonda Rhimes [Shonda Rhimes By The Numbers](/video/j5fbYDXH/) ### Shonda Rhimes By The Numbers [Alfonso Cuaron Raises a Glass to the Next Generation](/video/4URTdGoA/) ### Alfonso Cuaron Raises a Glass to the Next Generation --- ## Transcript Anything after this moment. Now, I want whats mine. I need you to listen to me very carefully. Year after year these woman have sighted auditions for parts that are girlfriends and side kicks and fun neighbors. And for the first time ever, all three of those women have their own shows. Yeah, you see Tharajee Henson get up and cheer when Viola wins, and you see Carey in tears when Viola wins, because they've all been together For so long and to be able to applaud one of them getting up there and winning that award is everything. [ MUSIC ] The people who have influenced me most in my career are in terms of writers, probably like Toni Morrison. Whoopi Goldberg was a really big deal for me when I was growing up because I saw her. Show live on Broadway and it made me realize that you could write anything as long as it was creative and beautiful and funny and interesting and people would watch it. I was on the beach with like all my friends, or like all my friends with me, I don't know we were all together. The first people I can remember believing in my talent were my parents. I'm very lucky that I have parents who when I was three and Literally dictating stories into a tape recorder and bringing them to my parents. My mother would type them up. They really did think I was creative, and they really did appreciate creativity. I always knew as a kid that I was a writer. But I never really knew what I wanted to do. I always believe that that wasn't a really job. So I thought that all of the things that interested me, like Maybe I'd be a doctor, maybe I'd be a lawyer, maybe I'd go work in Washington, I'd always thought that those were the things that I actually wanted to do for a living, instead of understanding that those were things I wanted to research and write about for a living. Admit you killed Trisha Stanley and had my client David Allen set up for her murder. That is enough. I think I was really lucky to, along the way, meet people who were really encouraging. When Grey's first got picked up as a show and it was really popular out of the box. [ MUSIC ] I was freaking out because I didn't understand what was happening. Winnie Holzman who did My So Called Life, Wife called me up and said, do you wanna go out for lunch because you must be freaking out. And I'd never met her before, and we went out for lunch, and that was really wonderful. It's not like there's a weird competitiveness that's happening in Hollywood. When I first got a show, somebody said, you have to come to this dinner that they had, it's this women Hollywood showrunners. You gotta come, and it's kind of a secret, and it's great. And I went to this dinner and they told me everything they knew about running a show. The women that I have met in this town have always been really embracing. I think the way we're gonna make television continue to look like the way the world looks is really simple. I mean it's just who is telling the stories. You know the people telling the stories are the people deciding who's, who you see on screen They're the people deciding who are in the writers room. They're the people deciding who are in the crew. The person who runs the show runs the show. So to me it's really about raising the next generation of showrunners because the thing that I hear continuously is oh there's no one qualified. It's so hard to find people. It's not. I have a writer's room full of people. So I say raise them. 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