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
character numbers firsts
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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.
careers entertainment contracts
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
information internet currency
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
freak control-freak
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
stories good-things reporters
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
decision faces made
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
your-side understanding sides
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
humanity together stronger
I am big believer in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.
thinking television way
Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it's trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.
children fighting supernatural-elements
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
powerful guy world
The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
thinking answers levels
On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.