Once Something Is Well-written, Then Everything Else

The Kind Of People That Love 'the Rocketeer' Are The Kind Of People That Love Good Storytelling And Innocence And A Better World, So To Speak, So They're Almost Always Nice People To Bump Into.

I've Done My Share Of Reading About Abraham Lincoln, Throughout My Life, And He Wasn't Always Carved In Stone. He Was A Human Being. He Was A Very Thoughtful, Self-educated, Complex, Magnanimous Human Being, Who Was Very, Very Strong, Very Smart And Very Canny, With A Very Strong Sense Of What Was Right And What Was Wrong. Through All That, He's Become An Icon, Over The Years, And Some Of His Warmth And Humanity Has Been Lost. You Don't Tend To Think Of Lincoln As This Warm, Funny Person, But He Was.

The Network Wants You To Make A Thing That's Just A Stand-alone Episode, So You Never Get Any Character Or Continuity. This Is One Of The Ways In Which Television Can Actually Be Good, And Even Better Than The Movies, Because It Gives You A Chance To Tell A Long Story.

Oh, I’m Nerdy About Science Fiction And Fantasy And Graphic Novels And Reading, And I’m Nerdy About Board Games. My Favorite Board Game Is A Board Game I’m Working On Right Now. It’s A Game Of Napoleonic Era Naval Warfare, And It’s Going To Be Fun.

So Many Movies Are So Formulaic Because You've Got To Get It Done In An Hour And A Half. On A Tv Series, That's Where The Really Interesting Stuff Can Happen.