42 Quotes by Howard Gordon

At this point, having done it for as long as we've done it, there's a certain amount of faith you have in the process that we're going to do it.

Sometimes bureaucracies are incompetent, just by virtue of the fact that they're bureaucracies. And, sometimes, Jack has to do things outside the law.

Then the idea of this fake death came out very late in the game and we rewrote it.

The big question everybody has about Martha is whether she's Chicken Little or the boy who cried wolf. There's a heavy burden in being married to a powerful man, particularly when you're not up for the role.

I'm not kidding you when I tell you we don't know what's going to happen next episode. I really mean it.

I mean, we know in general we'll avert a terrorist threat or conclude the conventional story, but we begin the year sort of pretending we have the first four to six (episodes). But even as we're writing those, they change. And I think one of the reasons the show has the quality it does . . . is we're so critical and so we revise ourselves. We revise it again. And in that process things just change too quickly to plan ahead too much.

I hope people will understand, I hope they'll be affected by the loss and I hope they'll miss him. Because if they do, we'll have all done our jobs.

Doing good stuff or stuff that you are proud of takes time and takes effort.

We're not allowed to carry out harsh interrogations anymore, but we're allowed to fly over somebody's village, without due process, and kill them all?