We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the story is good. I'm going into this venture thinking that the audience is really smart and… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase people and… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't seen me… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The initial idea… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I hope the… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people are in… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
It's the open ocean right now because it's so unique. It's a really unique way of doing American television. There are a million possibilities.… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here.… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of the air… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they are really… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there,… — Veena Sud Copy Share Image
![“The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up. I had run a show that had already existed and had been created by the show-runner, Meredith [Stiehm]. It's a very different experience to come in at ground zero and meet people and…” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/930/veena-sud-27264_casts_the-most-surprising-thing-to-me-is-what_262618.jpg)
![“The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the end before I know the beginning.” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa7/veena-sud-27264_ends_the-thing-i-love-about-this-story-the-ki_1286541.jpg)
![“It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people who could carry the weight of this story, who had the chops and who had the spirit, where they could bring in so much of their own selves to these characters. So, the casting…” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85a/veena-sud-27264_casting_it-was-a-very-very-intense-and-long-cast_1344580.jpg)
![“But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to play a real woman and be in this drama. It was incredible that all these women were coming in. And then, Mireille [Enos] walked in the door and she was reading the lines…” quote by Veena Sud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/745/veena-sud-27264_actors_but-for-the-role-of-sarah-linden-we-saw_2352547.jpg)
