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We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.

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I'm on a lot of airplanes. There are definitely times when I just vapor-lock. I'm on the plane, and I have so much to do, I just don't know what to do. It never lasts for very long. It might last for the flight.

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People, they don't know how to bend; they just break.

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What makes something tragic is that it could've been averted at multiple points.

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My feeling is there's a lot of straight drama on television. My goal in life is to try to create something unexpected, and genre is the tool in doing that.

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The last thing you want is to be desperate in Hollywood.

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TV is all about learning to write in someone else's voice, so if you do it long enough without selling your own project, they assume you don't have your own voice; you're just a good mimic.

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'Legion' is meant to be a show that is a state of mind. But the problem with TV is that there are commercials. There's a hypnotic quality to the way we put it together. I need to get you out of your life in the first seven minutes of that show.

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The job at broadcast is to figure out what the dumbest person in the room is going to think. That's not the case at FX.

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I am a salesman, I am an executive, I look at budgets, I think about power politics, but then I am also a creative person.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Producer

Born: Unknown

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