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

We feel like "Lost" deserved a real resolution, not a "snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black" kind of ending. We thought …

- Carlton Cuse

It's a very artistic process to translate and adapt a book into a series.

- 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

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

- Carlton Cuse

There are just so many options that people have. But as a writer, you'll drive yourself crazy, if you worry about that too much. People watch a lot o…

- 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