16 Quotes by Paul Scheuring

We certainly asked that question, and research bore out that, in fact, when you are going to incarcerated, you can make a request through your attorney to be incarcerated in a particular place that's close to your home, your family and friends. Now, the court doesn't have to honor that, but it certainly is a real process. If we didn't have that, then we might not have this show.

It's the new trend. We were green-lit when 'Lost' came out. It had its big opening night. And I think probably all around town, a number of (serialized) shows were green-lit. And like everything else in this industry, I think that many will try, and most will fail, and a few will succeed.

In Season 2, the prison really starts to drop out of the story.

By season five the title will be about 30 or 40 words long.

I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.