24 Quotes by Mark Sheppard

I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.

When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

With sci-fi you get these kind of stories in historical drama, and it's just so fabulous.

I've been lucky enough to work with some of the best TV directors there are, and I've learned from how they had to handle when things don't go quite according to plan.

It seems to realize itself to be some of the most exciting TV and films that are made. Sci-fi just has that ability.

It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.

The idea of future or past, either way, is a core part of entertainment. It's something we've always loved as humans. Its part of our psyche, I think.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.