Carlton Cuse Quotes

• 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.

  Carlton Cuse

  Discovery, Ideas, Roots

  "Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse on the End (?) of Lost". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.vulture.com. May 11, 2010.

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• 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.

  Carlton Cuse

  Dream, Betrayal, Real

  "Talking 'Lost' with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse". Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Book, Artistic, Process

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Moving, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Writing, Trying, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Past, Notion

  "Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof Talk Lost". Interview, movieweb.com. April 21, 2008.

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• 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.

  Carlton Cuse

  Thinking, Brain, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Thinking, Giving, Three

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Tragedy, Storytelling, Form

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Dark, Tone, Made

  Source: collider.com

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

  Carlton Cuse

  Character, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• 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.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Always Trying

  Source: collider.com

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