Unconventional Plotlines Quotes

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him.

I write a kind of surreal fantasy, but they can't put 'surreal fantasy' on a paperback.

A novel compared to film writing can allow the author to be more indulgent, and that extends to the characters and the story being told.

The Gift' doesn't deal with the neat, tie-me-up-with-a-bow kind of stories - they are grittier, messier, and not all of them have a happy resolution. You are following people and events that are more difficult, more elusive, and therefore harder to pin down.

The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

A lot of the 'Portlandia' characters and a lot of the moments aren't really TV-worthy, but that's what is so refreshing about seeing them.

I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.

Broad City's first season is full of moments that are insane... and yet make total sense.