As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

- Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

- Carlton Cuse

You have to be able to get inside the heads of the characters and completely sympathize and understand them.

- Carlton Cuse

I think that we're moving into this new phase of television where audiences are really embracing stories with a beginning, middle, and end.

- Carlton Cuse

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

- Carlton Cuse

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

- Carlton Cuse

I think that the best television now is giving you a three-act experience.

- Carlton Cuse

The Following and Hannibal are really well made, but the tone is very consistently dark.

- Carlton Cuse

The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and theres ongoing creati…

- Carlton Cuse