Howard Gordon quotes
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“Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Kiefer Sutherland and Howard Gordon Talk 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, How Jack Bauer Fits into a Post 9/11 World, Shooting in London, and a Movie Update". Interview, collider.com. January 15, 2014.
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“What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.”
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“Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.
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“I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Q&A with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.
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“I'm one of three brothers.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
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“I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.”
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“Where I came from, no one was a writer.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
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“Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
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“Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Howard Gordon (2011). “Be Not Thy Father's Son”, p.66, CCB Publishing
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“I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.”
-- Howard GordonSource : "Interrogating the Creators of 'Homeland'". Interview with Hamed Aleaziz, www.motherjones.com. November 4, 2011.
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“TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: collider.com
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“In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“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.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“The novel remains a very special form for me.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: deadline.com
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“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?”
-- Howard GordonSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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