Laura Leighton Quotes

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

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.

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

'Scorpion' has so much humor and so much heart and a great deal of action.

When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.

All I can say is that 'Raw' is an amazing show.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

People love to be told stories, but it's the sugar that draws you into the theater.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

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 don't want there to be a typical episode of 'The Walking Dead.' I want to try to give people different things every week because that's what I dig.

To answer that I have to describe what I think is my responsibility as a thriller writer: To give my readers the most exciting roller coaster ride of a suspense story I can possibly think of.

I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.

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.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

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.

Dramatics are what keep you in the seats.

I love a really good storyline.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I think I'm always drawn to a good story.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

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