Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse
Arthur Carlton Cuseis an American screenwriter, showrunner and producer, best known as an executive producer and screenwriter for the American television series Lost, for which he made the Time magazine list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Cuse is considered a pioneer in transmedia storytelling...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth22 March 1959
CountryUnited States of America
aspects engaged fun genre people
The genre aspects of the show are cool, and we have fun doing it. But I am much more engaged by the people on the show, and I think that is fundamentally what we try to do.
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The job of being a television show-runner has evolved and there's all these new aspects to it. It's good because there are additional avenues open for content. We have ways of expressing ideas we have for the show that wouldn't fit into the television series. But it's hard to manage our time. And we honestly put most of our time and attention on the show itself - that still is the bread and butter of our existence.
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I think we very much want to put those things into the show that lead to discussion and analysis and that's what makes the show engaging. It's not a show in which everything is spoon-fed to you, which is the problem with a lot of American television. There is room for ambiguity in this story.
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I think we've made a bold choice in terms of how to answer that question. Some people will not like it, but I think a lot of people will like it, but no one will accuse us of copping out and taking the easy solution, or making a choice that is just confounding, like going into the hatch and finding another hatch.
crazy thinking always-trying
There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.
writing trying scripts
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.
character able
You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them
dark tone made
The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.
past notion
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
tragedy storytelling form
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
thinking giving television
I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.
moving thinking stories
I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
book artistic process
It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.
thinking brain actors
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.