Howard Gordon

Howard Gordon
Howard Gordonis an American television writer and producer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth31 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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At this point, having done it for as long as we've done it, there's a certain amount of faith you have in the process that we're going to do it.
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Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law.
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We feel lucky to be working with so many great actors. Each of these newcomers, as well as the previously announced cast additions, will help deliver the thrill ride '24' fans have come to expect.
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We had kind of painted ourselves into a corner.
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I wish that were the case. It's not true. But I think on some unconscious level, maybe we know more than we think we know.
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Yeah. She's out in the woods with a cougar.
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I can tell you that this year, we've actually decided to go smaller with the story line as compared to last season. We'll see a collision between Jack's former self and his current self. And he'll be at the center of the action as opposed to on the outside looking in as he has the past few seasons.
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One of the gifts the actors who do the show have is to make ridiculous situations feel real. We acknowledge when we're writing it or doing it that some things are unlikely, but it's the show and Jack Bauer doesn't work at a carwash.
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She's coming back. We can't tell you how. We can't tell you for how long. We can't tell you how it ends. But, other than that, we can tell you anything.
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We flirted with going to London last year for six episodes. Not with Kiefer necessarily, but to tell another story in another part of the globe. That's something that I would really love to try to do next year.
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Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it.
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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.
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We had been circling another story line for the first two or three weeks we got together, and it didn't really excite us. Then somebody said, 'What if the president is shot?' It really was one of those epiphanies that suddenly crystallized.
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(We) felt like we'd told David Palmer's story, we knew that there was no place more to take him. So it was a convenient way to sort of jump-start the year.