Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
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People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.
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I believe people love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have, whether somebody shows them on TV or not. And a hero, or heroes, take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. And by the end of that hour, you feel better and you feel safer. I really believe that. I don't think the way to deal with fears is not to dramatize them.
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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.
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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.
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Movies and television shows are two completely different species,
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I needed other people in the newsroom for Kolchak to interact with, ... relationships that were going to drive these stories.
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Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
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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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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.
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You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.
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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.
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If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.
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The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.
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The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.