Narrative Limits Quotes

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel ... it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.

In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.

Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this "belongs" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'

You can only tell so many bad-guy stories.

I learned early on that there are all sorts of stories I have no place telling.

There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore.