Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon
Howard Gordonis an American television writer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
chapter cite verse
He was able to cite chapter and verse from the seasons.
blast corners energy gives ourselves paint
Part of what gives the show its energy is we paint ourselves into corners and blast our way out.
gifts jack ridiculous situations work
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.
airport century city ontario realistic recovery seven
I think Carlos' recovery is probably as realistic as getting from Century City to the Ontario Airport in seven minutes.
ourselves painted
We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner.
woods
Yeah. She's out in the woods with a cougar.
scarves lips
Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.
novelists princeton novel
I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.
issues conservative social
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.
village harsh process
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?
circling excite line president somebody suddenly three weeks
We had been circling another story line for the first two or three weeks we got together, and it didn't really excite us. Then somebody said, 'What if the president is shot?' It really was one of those epiphanies that suddenly crystallized.
convenient david felt knew sort
(We) felt like we'd told David Palmer's story, we knew that there was no place more to take him. So it was a convenient way to sort of jump-start the year.