Tony Hale Quotes

I loved 'Lost,' from beginning to end.

Those Duffer Brothers really know how to tell a story, and I think it makes you want to watch. 'Stranger Things' is remarkably watchable.

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

I like the idea of shows where I don't know where I'll be at the end of the season.

All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.

Fiction, even when it's grim and hard, is fun.

If work isn't rooted in comedy, people will turn from it, or they'll use it like soap opera.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

I love the novel because it's like a love affair. You can just fall into it and keep going, and you never know where it's going to take you.

I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into.

People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.

I think 'Pretty Little Liars' is going to be hugely popular for adults, for kids, for girls, for guys, you know, something for everyone to look at, and the stories are going to be great. There's suspense every week. The friendship is really fun to watch. I think it's going to have something for everybody.

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.

'Top Of The Lake' is a great story with a beginning, and a middle and an end, about darkness - it's like the heart of darkness. And everybody has got one. When I was reading it, I couldn't put it down, and I wanted to know what was going to happen next.

I like 'Vampire Diaries' because it has great stories.

People get excited about things like 'Swan Lake' because they generate a personal involvement. If you set up the story properly, audiences respond to the ambiguity. People ask, 'What exactly is happening in Act Four?' and I never say. I can't put it into words, but they've got a feeling about it, and that's good enough.

I have a very simple definition of a good movie: a good movie makes you forget you're watching a movie.

If you're a fan of anything I do, I'm always telling a story. I'm into that - I like it when you don't know if it was true or not.

Cliffhangers are a lot of fun, but I think they can be easily abused if you're not careful.