Matt Williams is a television writer creator and producer He is the producer of the TV shows Roseanne and Home Improvement and movies such as What Women Want and has written for The Cosby Show and A Different World as well as writing the screenplay for Wild Hearts Cant Be Broken Additionally he has written the play Between Daylight and Boonville and directed and coproduced the feature film Where the Heart Is starring Natalie Portman Williams is originally from Evansville Indiana The TV show Roseanne uses pictures of places in Evansville He wrote and directed Walker Payne in 2006 starring Jason Patric Drea De Matteo and Sam Shepard