Carlton Cuse Quotations

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot of TV, so they think certain things are going to happen, and you're always trying to subvert expectations.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.