24 Quotes by Brian J. Smith

When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.

Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.

People aren't making as many movies as they used to, so youve got a lot of really big-name actors who are coming in, and they want to do pilots, so things kind of disappear for those of us who kind of have to still get in the room and audition and read for it.

I will say, I quite enjoyed 'SG-1'. I'm a very big fan of 'SG-1'. I especially love Ben Browder. I thought he did fantastic work in that.

You're not supposed to do a television series that takes place in nine cities all over the globe. Everyone will tell you that that's undoable.

When you have 12 hours of storytelling, the cool thing about it is that you get to really leave people with question marks, but hopefully wanting to come back.

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.

I've been doing sci-fi for two years, and there is always something big going on. The stakes are always huge. You're fighting for your life, or you're dealing with personal stuff. It has really high stakes attached to it, and there are green screen and explosions. You're going out on these really cool locations.