Unfamiliar Characters Quotes

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind of story and rarely even do the same character from one year to the next.

When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

You travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing ... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

I love playing odd roles.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

I've never done a sequel - so far, there have been too many new stories and characters calling my name.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

I have never shied away from experimental roles.

All the parts I've enjoyed playing the most I didn't know about until they appeared, or it was something I read and fell in love with.

One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.