“The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.” Quote by Francis Bacon
“In junior high I read a lot of Stephen King, whose Americana approach to writing was often about "the terror next door" and at the same time I was reading a lot of Clive Barker, who was on the other end of the horror pendulum: insidious and disturbingly psychological. I found it fascinating how these two authors came at horror from two totally different perspectives.” WritingTwoDifferentEndsReadingNextFoundDoorsPerspectiveKingsHorrorApproachTerrorPsychologicalFascinatingJuniorsDifferent PerspectiveInsidiousJunior HighPendulumsAmericana Author:Bryan Fuller
“The definition of horror is pretty broad. What causes us "horror" is actually a many splendored thing (laughs). It can be hard to make horror accessible, and that's what I think Silence of the Lambs did so brilliantly - it was an accessible horror story, the villain was a monster, and the protagonist was pure of heart and upstanding so it had all of these great iconographic elements of classic storytelling. It was perceived less as a horror movie than an effective thriller, but make no mistake, it was a horror movie and was sort of sneaky that way.” ThinkingWayHeartHardStoriesCausesMistakeSilenceLaughingHorrorPureElementsDefinitionsMonstersStorytellingClassicBroadsVillainLambsThrillersProtagonistsHorror StoriesSneaky Author:Bryan Fuller
“I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.” ThinkingAttentionAcceptingAudienceDependsHorrorDenyMainstreamExecutionAccessibility Author:Bryan Fuller
“Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.” IfsMindFirstsBelieveTwoGuyFunBreakTerribleEasierCapableLosingPicksDoctorsSeasonsPoliceDinnerSanityInvitesCharmingBreaking DownTerrible ThingsDoctor WhoMeltingQuestionableCranes Author:Bryan Fuller
“Dr. Lecter would have more sustenance on the spacecraft from Alien because there are more people to eat. I think he'd get hungry after a while in the Overlook - I can't imagine him eating canned food.” PeopleThinkingI CanImagineEatingHungryAliensDrsSustenanceSpacecraftCanned Food Author:Bryan Fuller
“If I were to remake a movie, I'd love to remake Halloween 3 Season of the Witch because even though it's a very flawed film, at its core is a brilliant idea: An evil toymaker is set to kill all the children of the world on Halloween night - and I think that's absolutely fantastic. So whoever has the rights can give me a call.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingChildrenIdeasFilmNightEvilRightsSeasonsGive MeBrilliantCoreFantasticWitchHalloweenFlawedRemakesBrilliant IdeasHalloween Night Author:Bryan Fuller
“Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed are things that many governments still close, and that is police files and trial records, trial records of the special courts set up by Vichy. And especially interesting are the trial records of the Purge Trials after the war.” WellsHas BeensStillsWarGovernmentPoliticalInterestingRecordsSpecialPoliceCourtMeetingsTrialsDocumentsFilesCabinets Author:Robert O. Paxton
“Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it.” PeopleThinkingMindWellsMadeChangedThirdsAwfulMessMiserableRepublic Author:Robert O. Paxton
“Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be able to protect them from German extortions, and it didn't look so much as though they had won the war, either. And so by '43, a lot of people are shifting sides.” PeopleYearsLooksWarAbleSidesCoupleProtectRegimesEvidentShiftingNew StartExtortion Author:Robert O. Paxton
“I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.” ThinkingPresidentCareersTypicalSensational Author:Robert O. Paxton