Howard Gordon
Howard Gordon
Howard Gordonis an American television writer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
woods
Yeah. She's out in the woods with a cougar.
affected hope loss miss people
I hope people will understand, I hope they'll be affected by the loss and I hope they'll miss him. Because if they do, we'll have all done our jobs.
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I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it.
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I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.
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The big question everybody has about Martha is whether she's Chicken Little or the boy who cried wolf. There's a heavy burden in being married to a powerful man, particularly when you're not up for the role.
came death fake game late
Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it.
fact jack outside virtue
Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law.
effort proud stuff
Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.
village harsh process
We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?
issues conservative social
I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.
writing crafts stories
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.
character solitude actors
I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.
imagination novel limitation
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.
novel reader pure
In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.