'Grey's Anatomy wasn’t about the patients'

Shonda Rhimes opened up about the critically-acclaimed medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.

During an interview with Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist, the screenwriter said, "I wrote a medical show that’s not what other people were thinking of as being, like, correct medical shows."

“It didn’t take it too seriously. And it wasn’t about the patients; it was how the doctors felt about the patients, it was about their lives."

The producer also said that her motherhood led her toward television.

“I wasn’t going anywhere, suddenly," the mother-of-three said. "And I was watching a lot more television. And I realized, ‘This is where all the character development is really happening.'"

Adding, "At first, I wanted to be a doctor. I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to work in politics, all of those things, which I finally realized, 'No. I don’t want to do any of those things. I just want to write about them."

Forbes called Rhimes the "self-proclaimed highest-paid showrunner in Hollywood."

With hits like Bridgerton, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, Inventing Anna, and now, Queen Charlotte in her career.