Intense Storytelling Quotes

The thing with '24' is that because it moves so much, it's a challenge, and sometimes things get revealed about these characters as you go.

Michael Koryta isn’t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. He’s simply one of today’s finest authors, period. His stories are taut, compelling, and beautifully rendered. His understanding of human nature-the good, the evil, and all the gray between-is masterful. THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD is Koryta at his best.

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. Theyre always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and hes so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think thats what movies should be about.

[Season 4 of Sherlock Holmes will be] myopically dark. You're talking about the end of the universe darkness. You can't see in front of you and would walk into everything dark.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.

Scott Sigler's Infected is a bucking pulp pony that throws you this way and that, and just when you think you've got your balance, that ole pony bucks the other way. All in all, one hell of an exhilarating ride, and highly recommended.

'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

I love stories that put you on the edge of your seat and make you feel something.

I am not a big fan of what I call 'ambient television,' which just washes through you in a very polite way. I like television that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Sean Black writes like a punch to the gut.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.