Frank Spotnitz Quotes
The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
Let's make really good stories that people get something out of. That's the one common denominator with everything I try to do.
I love films where I'm looking around the world a little different now that I've seen that. I want something that nourishes my view of the world.
I like projects that are entertaining, where I'm emotionally engaged and there's something to think about afterwards.
The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.
If my whole game depends on whether you can guess the ending or not, I'm done, forget it.
If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.
The beauty of a really good movie is that it's a whole world, complete in an hour and a half or two hours.
It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.
I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.
You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.