Katee Sackhoff Quotes

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall.

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques that are normally outlawed - the presentation of Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, is based exclusively on the personal case study made by Lisbeth Salander.

Fiction is the study of the human condition under imagined circumstances.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

With television, I worked on 'Lost,' where you'd just put your faith in the writers and go with what they're writing.

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with - to the extent that cop shows are mirrors of the culture.

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.

I think TV is all about caring, and if you don't care about a character in a drama or a person when they get voted out of a reality show, it's bad TV. I wouldn't care if you dropped a bomb on the 'Big Brother' house.

'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.

I like thrillers a lot. There's a lot of discipline connected to them. You can't be as freewheeling as you are with character pieces.

The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.

'Room' was more a study of an individual event, and 'The Family' takes off from there.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading the script. I always look forward to finding out.

I love serial drama.

Everybody loves 'The Wire,' and I think it's okay, but in the end it's just a police series.

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

I remember when I was watching 'Lost,' which I loved. I didn't know what was going on, but I still loved it.

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.