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" Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene. "
Kurt Sutter
Always
Comfortable
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" I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things. "
Kurt Sutter
People
Choices
Wife
" I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world. "
Kurt Sutter
Real
Like
Circumstances
" Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. "
Kurt Sutter
Man
Past
Evil
" You have to be driven by something greater than you, where you don't surrender, and you commit to something like that. "
Kurt Sutter
Driven
Where
Surrender
" The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles. "
Kurt Sutter
Up
Journalism
Lazy
" The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge. "
Kurt Sutter
Knowledge
Myself
Time
" I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus. "
Kurt Sutter
Literature
Writing
Great
" When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor. "
Kurt Sutter
Cats
Spending Time
World
" What happens on 'Mad Men' in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it's superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it's become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it's a beautiful show to look at. "
Kurt Sutter
Writing
Beautiful
Men
" If there's any secret to my success, it's that I just hire people who are smarter and more talented than I am. "
Kurt Sutter
Secret
Who
I Am
" My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. "
Kurt Sutter
Cartoon
Wife
Sitcom
" What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there. "
Kurt Sutter
Go
Never
Fun
" I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being. "
Kurt Sutter
Artist
Challenge
Emotions
" The trap in Hamlet is he's the most passive of Shakespeare's characters. He's not a Richard III, not out there taking a lot of action. It's a lot of asides and soliloquies where he's wrapped in angst, and that's not a very interesting character. "
Kurt Sutter
Interesting
Action
Passive
" I don't think or write from big ideals. "
Kurt Sutter
Think
Ideals
Write
" I'm way too hypersensitive. "
Kurt Sutter
Way
Too
" Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game. "
Kurt Sutter
Me
Doing
Finding
" The allegations against Harvey Weinstein are clearly deplorable. No matter how many great films he's bullied into production, or his guilt-induced contributions to left-minded ideals, this kind of intimidation and abuse of power is perverse and utterly unforgivable. Period. "
Kurt Sutter
Abuse Of Power
He
Kind
" I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began. "
Kurt Sutter
Me
Kind
Kid
" I don't read a lot of fiction, but one of my favorite authors is William Kennedy; his books, to me, almost read like historical dramas because the mythologies are so detailed as he wove fiction with the factual history of Albany. "
Kurt Sutter
Books
Me
Like
" One of my favorite movies is the old Depardieu film 'The Return Of Martin Guerre,' which is actually a true story and a book. "
Kurt Sutter
True
Story
Old
" I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture. "
Kurt Sutter
Been
Riding
Since
" I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. "
Kurt Sutter
I Can
Arrogant
Insufferable
" I'm a storyteller... I haves a God-given gift that I can share with you and perhaps entertain you and bring you along for the ride... So when anybody tries to take that away from me, or impede that, I get defensive. "
Kurt Sutter
Ride
Me
I Can
" I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows. "
Kurt Sutter
Write
Should
Political
" I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine. "
Kurt Sutter
Like
Way
Want
" Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post. "
Kurt Sutter
You
Done
Create
" Here's the deal with 'Bastard.' I loved that show, and for me, it was such a palate cleanser, going from writing urban vernacular and crime to, essentially, iambic pentameter. I loved the mythology of that world based on history, but what it came down to was money. "
Kurt Sutter
Me
History
Money
" I know the book on me is I'm bombastic and over-the-top, but I think people who know me know that's a part of who I am, but it's not who I am. "
Kurt Sutter
I Am
Know
Me
" My dad was disappointed in me because I was obese, and he was a sports guy. As a result, I spent a lot of time in that basement. I could go down there and escape and be whatever I wanted to be. I had a huge fantasy life. It always involved vengeance. "
Kurt Sutter
Sports
Result
Me