Howard Gordon Quotes

• Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

  Howard Gordon

  Scarves, Lips

  Howard Gordon (2011). “Be Not Thy Father's Son”, p.66, CCB Publishing

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• What is absolutely true is that any good [Television] series has a specific voice. And I think that voice is almost exclusively the domain of the executive producer. . . . As a staff writer you're not being called upon to be the great creative person. You're sort of called upon to understand the characters and their voices and put them through certain paces.

  Howard Gordon

  Carácter, Pensamiento, Voz

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• I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

  Howard Gordon

  Members, Council, Policy

  "Q&A with Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa". Interview with Kris Kitto, thehill.com. October 18, 2011.

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• I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

  Howard Gordon

  Issues, Conservative, Social

  "Interrogating the Creators of 'Homeland'". Interview with Hamed Aleaziz, www.motherjones.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I'm one of three brothers.

  Howard Gordon

  Brother, Three, Three Brothers

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Novel, Overwhelming

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process.

  Howard Gordon

  Writing, Eye, People

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• I knew I wanted to be a writer. Where I came from, no one was a writer. I came from Long Island, and everyone became a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer or a teacher or a businessman. I didn't know any writers.

  Howard Gordon

  Teacher, Islands, Doctors

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

  Howard Gordon

  Practice, Listening, Promise

  "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.

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• Where I came from, no one was a writer.

  Howard Gordon

  "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

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• TV and film are very different media with different requirements. In a TV show, you have actors and fellow writers and directors, who are interpreting your work. With a novel, you only have ink, words and your reader.

  Howard Gordon

  Media, Tv Shows, Ink

  Fuente: collider.com

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• In some ways, a novel isn't as structurally rigorous as a screenplay or a TV show, which have finite real estate. In a novel, you can more deeply illuminate a character's interior and get away with digressions.

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  Real, Character, Tv Shows

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

  Howard Gordon

  Novel, Reader, Pure

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

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  Imagination, Novel, Limitation

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

  Howard Gordon

  Character, Solitude, Able

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

  Howard Gordon

  Escritura, cuentos, manualidades

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• When you do a TV show, the cumulative intimacy you develop with the audience through your characters is pretty profound. It may be the most profound storytelling there is, because the character gets to live and roll around in the audience's mind week after week.

  Howard Gordon

  Character, Tv Shows, Profound

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• The novel remains a very special form for me.

  Howard Gordon

  Special, Form, Novel

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

  Howard Gordon

  Novelists, Princeton, Novel

  Fuente: deadline.com

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• 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?

  Howard Gordon

  Village, Harsh, Process

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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

  Howard Gordon

  Effort, Proud, Stuff

  "Kiefer Sutherland and Howard Gordon Talk 24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY, How Jack Bauer Fits into a Post 9/11 World, Shooting in London, and a Movie Update". Interview, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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