32 Quotes by Glen Mazzara

I lot of the show’s I do are low tech. This is low tech. There’s a bit of high adventure here. There’s difficult emotional choices. So actually this feels like a natural progression of everything I’ve been doing before this.

You really have to do your job as a writer and push people to be as creative as possible. What’s nice about the TV medium is you have such a connection to the characters that when somebody dies, the audience cries. They really feel it. You really don’t cry when someone dies in a horror movie.

A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don’t know what’s going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

That’s the holy grail as a TV writer, to work on a story that you care about and to put it out there and for it to find the audience and connect with fans and connect with critics.

I created a show called 'Crash' for Starz, which was their first original drama, and that was not a good experience. I had a great time working with the cast and crew, but it was a young network and an intrusive studio, and to be honest I didn't really enjoy the movie 'Crash.'