The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creative revelations. Yes, its really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
We feel like "Lost" deserved a real resolution, not a "snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black" kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.
I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.
It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.
As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.
I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.
The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.
You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.
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.
