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
goodbye i-like-you love-you
The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.
doors mind revolving-doors
I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.
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.
feet littles nervous
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
character focus stories
All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
cartoon adults grew
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
visibility lows shows
I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.
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.
character opportunity age
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
years horizon who-we-are
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
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.