62 Quotes by Carlton Cuse

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.