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" I've been riding motorcycles since my early 20s, and I loved the hipness of the subculture. "
Kurt Sutter
Been
Riding
Since
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" I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows. "
Kurt Sutter
Write
Should
Political
" 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
" My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. "
Kurt Sutter
Cartoon
Wife
Sitcom
" 'Sons' was about working class white guys. And even though I didn't grow up in a motorcycle club, I grew up in a working-class, white-guy neighborhood. "
Kurt Sutter
Class
Grow Up
Motorcycle
" 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
" The stuff that I learned on 'Sons,' the education of how to tell stories, was part of that mythology. It's hard to look at it and go, 'Oh, if I knew this, I would have done it this way,' because the fact is I like to think that all that sort of unraveled as it was supposed to. "
Kurt Sutter
Way
Think
Done
" I'm way too hypersensitive. "
Kurt Sutter
Way
Too
" 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
" 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
" I knew from being on 'The Shield,' and having some experience in the financials of all of it, that after seven seasons, the production model changes and reverts back. It becomes a much more expensive show to do, and perhaps the economic feasibility of it somewhat goes away. "
Kurt Sutter
Changes
More
Seasons
" 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 can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. "
Kurt Sutter
I Can
Arrogant
Insufferable
" 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 am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man. "
Kurt Sutter
Pile
Man
I Am
" I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black. "
Kurt Sutter
Time
Writing
Black
" 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
" I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances. "
Kurt Sutter
Determination
World
Maturity
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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'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
" I don't think or write from big ideals. "
Kurt Sutter
Think
Ideals
Write
" 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
" The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas. "
Kurt Sutter
State
Am
I Am
" All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended. "
Kurt Sutter
Sense Of Humor
Know
Humor
" Never in the history of 'The Shield' was the word 'LAPD' ever mentioned. We would mention districts, like Wilshire and Hollenbeck and Marina, but Farmington was a fictitious district, and we never actually uttered the word 'LAPD.' So that was sort of the deal we made with them. "
Kurt Sutter
Like
Deal
History
" 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
" 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