Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
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beyond dvd equivalent everybody home hope life network provides retail shelves stay
For everybody who does what I do, you hope you have life beyond network television, and DVD provides that. It's television's equivalent of immortality: You get to stay on retail shelves and in home libraries.
drive interact needed newsroom people relationships
I needed other people in the newsroom for Kolchak to interact with, ... relationships that were going to drive these stories.
movies shows television
Movies and television shows are two completely different species,
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There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.
becoming capable eager embrace people written
Perri wasn't written to be anything other than a really smart, capable person. I think we're becoming more of a polyglot as a people and I'm eager to embrace that.
thoughtful appreciate special
The actors in Britain are incredible, and I didn't appreciate that until I got there. They interpret your words and you realize how deliberate and thoughtful they are. There are great American actors, too, don't get me wrong, but the technique that British actors have is something really special.
want-something views world
I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.
jobs thinking people
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.
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The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.
assessment skins remember
I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.
smart character journey
The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
writing thinking people
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.
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Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword. When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it.