Become Quote by Nic Pizzolatto Download Open image “Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.” — Nic Pizzolatto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Become Cathartic Character Characters Cut Cutting Easy Emotion Killing Short Short cuts Television
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.' — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
When any character gets killed, there's always a sadness about that, because they're part of the family in a way. — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers, so you can suddenly get a script where… — Alan Dale Copy Share Image
“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is not to… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
“TV is a pornographic cacophony of violence, death obsession, screams, gunfire and drama. You think it's fine because you are damaged.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people. — Andrew Dominik Copy Share Image
TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that… — Jill McDonald Copy Share Image
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
TV is gratifying in the long-term. We [writers] find ourselves knowing who we can go to for a laugh, or who we can go… — Michael Brandt Copy Share Image
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the day, her weight echoed in my empty hands, light but dense, her throes and kicks.” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The idea of being a show runner was very attractive to me, to create and control something. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“She reminded me of the empty glass of a swallowed cocktail, and at the heart of the empty glass was a smashed lime rind… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“She sipped her drink and the ends of her lips curled, stamped two dimples on her cheeks, and in her smile flashed the danger… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“So I was wrong when I told Rocky you could choose what you feel. It's not true. It's not even true that you can… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Some people. Something happens to them. Usually when they're young. And they never get any better.” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because, to some degree, I projected upon it. — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. —William Faulkner” — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
A strong, responsible Israel can become a stabilizer in such a turbulent region. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
If someone has the opportunity to become a model, I would say, 'Do it.' — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
I had a talent for copying the signatures of dignitaries like Indira Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan and so on. So, I wanted to become someone… — Sanjay Mishra Copy Share Image
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable. — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
'Inequality' has become the political theme/slogan of our time in both Europe and the U.S., yet political leaders do not even bother to consider… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
My first bill to become law repeals regulations to make everyday life easier and more affordable for Americans. — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
For many of us, work is the one place where we feel appreciated. The things that we long to experience at home - pride… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
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