Michael Straczynski
Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski, known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or jms, is an American screenwriter, television producer and director, and comic book writer. He is the founder of Studio JMS, and is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Babylon 5and its spinoff Crusade, Jeremiah, and Sense8...
ideas bullets dallas
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
years horizon who-we-are
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
writing white matter
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
real space baptism
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
book different
A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
character numbers firsts
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
careers entertainment contracts
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
play world pull-ups
I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and hit play, at the same moment, and then they'll comment to each other about it. They're sharing an experience, even though they're on different parts of the planet.
freak control-freak
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
zombie fans exaggeration
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
cartoon adults grew
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
book benefits individual
I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.
reality sometimes unlikely
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
memories thinking brain
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.