Michelle Forbes Quotes

'Broadchurch' is very different, but it's equally as good as 'The Killing' - if not better.

In terms of 'American Horror Story' and 'Nashville,' what attracted me to those, and 'Friday Night Lights,' for that matter, is that they felt like something innovative and something that we hadn't seen before. As an actor, that's exciting.

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.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

It's fun to twist fairy tales, but at the same time, I know I need to write stories that are different enough from each other that fans don't feel like they're just reading the same story over and over again.

'Criminal Minds,' our original show, is a phenomenal show, and all elements of that show work so well. I think that 'Suspect Behavior' just didn't click. I don't think it has anything to do with spin-offs. I think a spin-off still has to be successful on its own.

My writing, it's mostly fiction, but I want it to feel intimate and real.

Most fiction writers are driven to find their own 'voice,' but I am more interested in the voices of others.

It was a high-class problem burden, but it was still a burden on 'The Vampire Diaries,' in which we had this group of characters that we loved writing for so much and who had so much available story to tell.

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

Find your own way into your story. Find your own way into your game.

I liked 'The Wire.'

We loved 'The Crown.' And 'The Killing' and 'The Fall' with Gillian Anderson. All those crime shows are always super fun.

I loved 'True Detective' so much in Season 1, and then when the Season 2 monstrosity came around, I was like, 'What is this show? What have you done to this show?'

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

I don't want to be like other authors and say that there are only a few story lines in literature. A story is like a human face. We have as many stories as human faces. You might have similar facial features, but they're all a little different.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

There is so much competition and content floating around right now, so comedy has to have a lot quirk and heart.

'The Wire' is, by far, my favorite television show of all time. And I've always said that my aspirations for 'Luke Cage' was that it would be 'The Wire' of the Marvel television universe.

Writing in another person's voice is a skill you have to develop when you're working on someone else's show. But if you can maintain your perspective, that's what will make you stand out.

If I write a cop show, it's not up to me to decide how different it is from 'Law & Order.' I had screenwriters go on and on and on about how their cop show isn't like any other cop show on TV. They made very good points, and it absolutely doesn't matter. It's entirely up to the audience to decide.

I loved writing 'Lost.' It was like a never-ending opera, in a way.

I'm not interested in hearing yet another rapper tell me why he's the best. Why not tell a story set in a specific time and place? Create some characters, add a little bit of action and you're good to go.

'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.