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
long needs able
If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result of an editorial situation - then I need to stop doing it. I would rather not do something than do it badly or ineffectively. It's the only way I can live with myself and do right by the fans in the long haul.
motivational asking way
I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.
writing asking next
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
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.
fiction babylon-5 chains
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
mediums written
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
your-side understanding sides
Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
decision faces made
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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.
ideas bullets dallas
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
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.