When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They’re really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer’s perspective.
I’ve had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we’re dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
The ability to get inside your character’s head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character’s voice and two, it’s a way easier way to convey what the character’s thinking by actually laying out what he’s thinking.
Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They’re supposed to eat your food, break your heart.
Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero’s path somehow conveys what’s going on inside your hero’s head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he’s thinking.
You think you’re funny? I think I’m adorable.
Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.
I’m kind of a comic book geek, but I’m not really a super hero comic book geek.
When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don’t really start with a character or a logline like, “What if the electricity turned off?”
At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.
I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.
I’m mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn’t really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that’s kind of interesting.
I’ve never counted my chickens before they’ve hatched.
A wise man once told me family don’t end in blood, but it doesn’t start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family’s there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That’s family.
Family don’t end with blood.
What would you rather have, peace or freedom?
Saving people hunting things. The family business.