J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski, known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms, is an American screenwriter, television producer and director, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Studio JMS, and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5and its spinoff Crusade, Jeremiah, and Sense8...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionProducer
Date of Birth17 July 1954
CountryUnited States of America
pain waiting shapes
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.
fighting bars stories
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
stars war sky
The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.
heart writing issues
At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.
scare
Find what scares you and do it.
next-day half way
When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.
ideas bullets dallas
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
nice appreciate guy
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
writing white matter
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
real space baptism
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
book different
A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
father son car
You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.
compassion perfect unions
The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
information internet currency
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.