J. Michael Straczynski Quotes

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• You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.
• 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…
• People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.
• A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.
• 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…
• Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.
• 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…
• I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.
• I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.
• I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want…
• Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure…
• At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or…
• I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
• A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
• 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…
• 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.
• I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
• I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
• I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
• I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.

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