Alec Berg Quotes

'Lost' holds a very special place in people's hearts and I wouldn't presume to say that 'FlashForward' will replace 'Lost.' I think it provides a lot of the same adrenaline and fascination and entertainment. It will help ease the pain of losing 'Lost!' I think it will appeal to the very same audience.

Failures are much more dramatic than successes, and people like drama. I think this is why automobile races draw such crowds. People expect spectacular crashes, which we tend to find more interesting than cars just racing around the track. The same is true of bridges, buildings, or any structure or machine.

A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology. You see the same sort of action in 'Punch and Judy' or in the folk theatre of various cultures, like 'Grand Guignol.'

I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.

I like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Game of Thrones.' I like that era. I like that fantasy world.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Boy, there's nothing more thrilling than a chase. I'd often thought, over the years, that someone should do a whole film where it's nothing but a chase.

Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.

I think that in order for anything to work on television, you have to have conflict. Nothing can be too happy or it's boring. People don't want to watch that - they want to watch things that are exciting and dangerous and sexy and have tension.

I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.

It's quite a thrill to be playing a hero.

I love 'Lost' and 'Mission: Impossible III.'

People want a little excitement. I tell the truth, but I do it theatrically.

I like doing thrillers.

Building and sustaining tension is always my priority, so home entertainment provides challenges to that.

I know that you need to be entertaining at the beginning to get people interested, and what interests people is knockouts and excitement.

Fans want to see a fight and be entertained.

A thriller or an action movie would entice me. A sportsperson or a musician's biopic sounds exciting, too.

Football is a great environment for a movie because there is such passion for it and so much adrenaline.

For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.

Everyone wants drama. Everyone is living for drama.

I think when I fight, I make it exciting. I like to excite the fans.