Frank Spotnitz
Frank Spotnitz
character journey perfect
Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.
smart character journey
The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
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Perri wasn't written to be anything other than a really smart, capable person. I think we're becoming more of a polyglot as a people and I'm eager to embrace that.
movies shows television
Movies and television shows are two completely different species,
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Yet I think nostalgia of any kind is a double-edged sword. When people see a TV show title from their youth, they're looking for a piece of that old experience to come back, and the truth is, they'll never recapture it.
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For everybody who does what I do, you hope you have life beyond network television, and DVD provides that. It's television's equivalent of immortality: You get to stay on retail shelves and in home libraries.
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There's been a declining audience for network TV for a while, People have their own libraries of things they specifically want to see, which competes for TV viewing time. More options is good news for the consumer but bad news for the networks, who are responsible for the most expensive hours of TV produced. It'll be harder and harder to maintain an audience that justifies that business model.
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People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.
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I needed other people in the newsroom for Kolchak to interact with, ... relationships that were going to drive these stories.
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Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
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It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force.
writing thinking people
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.
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If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.
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You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.