64 Quotes by David Nutter

To me, the most important selling point of 'Roswell' was that the audience has to believe in the characters they're watching.

Many TV shows will create characters where you get a sense of who they are, but they're just the bad guy out to find you and you don't know why because there's no tone or dimension there.

Brendan Fehr has such charisma and such natural ability.

After 'Disturbing Behavior' and the pummeling I received creatively and emotionally, I did not know if I had it in me to do it again, but I just jumped back in and said, 'This is what I love to do so much, so I'm just going to do it as well as I can.'

When I directed the pilot for 'Smallville,' I knew that making Clark Kent relatable would be the key to audiences believing in him as a hero. 'Arrow' is a different show - darker and harder-edged - but it's the same core idea.

I have to find that project that moves me in some way. Anything else, and you're not trusting your gut.

Sometimes, when actors reach out to their characters, they're nowhere in sight. They need to find something inside of them. And then the characters are right there. As a director, I want them to find the character that's already inside them, instead of trying to manufacture or manipulate or make something up. That's not really honest or true.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

I've never come across, as a casual Internet person, a spoiler that I wasn't trying to look to find.