Quotes by J. Michael Straczynski

J. Michael Straczynski

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn’t find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.

Children

Fighting

Supernatural Elements

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A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument…and the occasional bar fight.

Bars

Fighting

Stories

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A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don’t have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.

Attention

Stuff

Television

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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.

Baptism

Real

Space

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A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.

Book

Different

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A story is a story is a story. The only difference is in the techniques you bring to bear. There are always limitations on what you can and can’t do. But I enjoy that. Just like when you write a sonnet or haiku, there are rules you have to abide by. And to me, playing within the rules is the fun part. It keeps the brain fresh.

Differences

Fun

Writing

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Again, one of the problems I have with television, as I mentioned before, is it’s trivial in many ways, and I think that a lot of folks out there are looking for new metaphors and new ways of thinking about things.

Television

Thinking

Way

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All love is unrequited. All of it.

Love Is

Unrequited

Unrequited Love

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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won’t.

Character

Focus

Stories

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Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn’t just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I’ve always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

Feet

Littles

Nervous

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