Alex Kurtzman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You always go by your gut. That's the best you can do. You go by what you feel, and you say yes or no based on what it inspires in you.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Inspire #Feels #Guts
When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Kids #Men #Play
I think what people watch television for is the emotional continuity, from episode to episode, and feeling that the experience that they had, four episodes ago, has actually been building to an episode that comes later, and knowing that the characters are growing, as a result of that, and making mistakes, is really, really important to the way people connect to television.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Mistake #Character #Emotional
I asked a director once what the secret of it all was, and he said you have to be so prepared that you are willing to throw all your preparation away in the moment when you see something better. That's a phenomenal piece of advice. It's been my compass through the process of making films. But you can really only do that if you're prepared. You can't wing it.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Advice #Preparation #Secret
I think our goal and intention is to make sure that, when you watch each episode, you don't have to make that choice, but also that you can have stand-alone episodes, where a story can have a beginning, middle and end.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Thinking #Goal #Choices
You used to have to make a choice. Is it a serialized television show, or is it a stand-alone or procedural? We were wildly influenced by The X-Files. Even when we created Fringe, it was the same thing. It's the gold standard of all gold standards, in genre television, and it was so wonderful because you felt so much for those characters.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Character #Choices #Gold
By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of them and putting them together. So it felt, actually, like one of those ideas that clicked for us, right away, on instinct.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Rip #Ideas #Together
In fact, we actually listen to fans all the time. It's helpful because you want to get a sense of what people are looking for and what they disagree with.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#People #Helpful #Disagree
We were such fans of Sleepy Hollow, in all of its iterations - growing up with the Disney show, and then Tim Burton's and, obviously, the most important being Washington Irving's short story. It evokes and invokes a very specific feeling and tone.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Growing Up #Feelings #Important
When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Want #Scripts #Ends
I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Believe #People #Reason
I think what all the Universal monster movies are defined by, and what makes them very special, is that it's really the only genre entirely unto itself, in which you fear the monster and fear for the monster. That's a very hard thing to do. To fear for and fear at the same time is extremely unique.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Unique #Thinking #Special
I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Character #Opportunity #Stories
The thing for me, and I can only really judge this by what I respond to myself as an audience member, I really only respond to a movie if I'm interested in the people who are in it. It's really that simple. If I'm not, then it's all noise.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Simple #People #Judging
As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Writing #Character #Emotional
An emotional story is an emotional story no matter how big or small it is.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Emotional
When you're working on a scene, both in the script phase and also in the moment, you look around and you wait for the lightning bolt to strike you and based on your instincts tell you what the right thing to do is here. And that can result in anything from a change of dialogue to the realisation that what you thought was a dramatic scene should actually have some humour. And maybe if you stage it this way it's funnier, or if you put the camera here it tells a different story. That stuff is kind of everything when you're a director.
-- Alex Kurtzman

#Waiting #Different #Kind

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