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Alex Kurtzman

(1973) Screenwriter

17 quotes in 118 categories

Alex Kurtzman is a screenwriter.

Quick Facts About Alex Kurtzman

Born: September 7, 1973
Profession: Screenwriter

About Alex Kurtzman

[Wikidata] American television producer... | [Wikipedia] Alexander Hilary Kurtzman is an American filmmaker. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers (2007), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orc

Quotes by Alex Kurtzman

When you're working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait…

Cinema

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As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional,…

Character

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I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that…

Beginning middle and end

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I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the…

Fear

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The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I…

Audience

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I think what people watch television for is the emotional continuity, from episode to episode, and feeling that the experience that they…

Building

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In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people…

Disagree

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You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We…

Character

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By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of…

Felt

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When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

Aim

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I asked a director once what the secret of it all was, and he said you have to be so prepared that…

Advice

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I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.

Character

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An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.

Emotional

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You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes…

Can do

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We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim…

Evoke

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I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to…

Believe

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When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to…

Able

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