Veena Sud

If I had multiple lives, I'd like to do many things, including being a homicide investigator. I'm not brave enough to chase…

— Veena Sud

The most surprising thing to me is what an incredibly intense effort it's been to create a world from the ground up.…

— Veena Sud

It's a challenge, for sure. My family is not seeing me at all, for probably the next six months, and they haven't…

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I've always been kind of drawn to the extremities of human nature. I wrote my first screenplay when I was 16. The…

— Veena Sud

We read novels. We read hundreds of pages of words, when the story is good because we're willing to stay there. I…

— Veena Sud

Because we spent so much time in the writer's room, not even talking about where it goes, but just who the people…

— Veena Sud

The thing I love about this story [The Killing] and this type of storytelling is that I don't have to know the…

— Veena Sud

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…

— Veena Sud

It was a very, very intense and long casting process [for The Killing] because we really had to find the right people…

— Veena Sud

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of…

— Veena Sud

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to…

— Veena Sud

I used to live in New York and now I live in L.A., and somehow I've become a different person because of…

— Veena Sud

I heard John Wells say something really smart, many years ago. He said, "Assume your audience is really intelligent. Assume that they…

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But, for the role of Sarah Linden, we saw everybody. Everybody wanted this role. Every female actor in town really wanted to…

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I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my…

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Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's…

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I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the…

— Veena Sud

Before I write anything, before I create any assumption in my mind about what it's like to be in that world, I…

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Creating a world that reflects the inner voyage of our characters was really important. Also, because this isn't a black and white…

— Veena Sud

I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some…

— Veena Sud