Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon
Howard Gordonis an American television writer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.
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He was able to cite chapter and verse from the seasons.
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Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out.
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One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.
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I think Carlos' recovery is probably as realistic as getting from Century City to the Ontario Airport in seven minutes.
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We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner.
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We flirted with going to London last year for six episodes. Not with Kiefer necessarily, but to tell another story in another part of the globe. That's something that I would really love to try to do next year.
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Yeah. She's out in the woods with a cougar.
beginning blast corners gives ourselves paint
We're lucky, at the beginning of the year, if we know where it starts. It really has become more and more of an improvisation. I think that's part of what gives the show its energy. We paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out of those corners.
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Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
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Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.
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I'm one of three brothers.
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I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.