I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.

- Bridget Carpenter

People want to evolve the idea of the word "mini-series." Mini-series has an '80s connotation to it.

- Bridget Carpenter

I didn't want everybody to be pretty. I didn't want everybody to be thing. I didn't want everybody to be a size 4. I wanted it to be like the world. …

- Bridget Carpenter

There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of…

- Bridget Carpenter

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

- Bridget Carpenter

I had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already r…

- Bridget Carpenter

I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.

- Bridget Carpenter

Josh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.

- Bridget Carpenter