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" My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. "
Kurt Sutter
Cartoon
Wife
Sitcom
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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
" For me, money is about respect, and that is really important to me. "
Kurt Sutter
Me
Really
Respect
" 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 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
" I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable. "
Kurt Sutter
I Can
Arrogant
Insufferable
" 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
" I do not write political shows; I should not write political shows. "
Kurt Sutter
Write
Should
Political
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world. "
Kurt Sutter
Real
Like
Circumstances
" Actors always feel more comfortable when there's an actor directing, in terms of vocabulary and breaking down a scene. "
Kurt Sutter
Always
Comfortable
Down
" I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore. "
Kurt Sutter
See
Mistakes
Me
" 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
" '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
" The rumor is not true: I am allowed in the state of Texas. "
Kurt Sutter
State
Am
I Am
" I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude. "
Kurt Sutter
Gratitude
Fear
Problems
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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 way too hypersensitive. "
Kurt Sutter
Way
Too
" 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'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