Paul Scheuring Quotes

#1. I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

Paul Scheuring

#2. Before I even put pen to paper, in any sense, I'm like, "What's the coolest MacGuffin you can come up with? What are the last frames of this series?" The secret that's behind this entire thing is to be as evocative, original, thought-provoking and timely.

Paul Scheuring

#3. As a writer, you're the guy in the box. You're creating and you have these euphorias.

Paul T. Scheuring

#4. They're all true. They all could have happened.

Ellen Sussman

#5. If we had a truth-in Government act comparable to the truth-in-advertising law, every note issued by the Treasury would be obliged to include a sentence stating: This note will be redeemed with the proceeds from an identical note which will be sold to the public when this one comes due.

Walter Wriston

#6. There's a story you write, there's a story you shoot and there's a story you cut.

Paul T. Scheuring

#7. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.

Pearl Zhu

#8. It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Paul T. Scheuring

#9. The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. It's a great euphoria when you reach that writing zone.

Paul T. Scheuring

#11. With prose, I know where I'm starting and I think I know where I'm going.

Paul T. Scheuring

#12. I have a great amount of respect for the audience. They know narrative construct. They know all the tropes.

Paul Scheuring

#13. I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.

Isaac Marion

#14. The Hollywood process is a living thing and you get used to that.

Paul T. Scheuring

#15. Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

Paul T. Scheuring

#16. You could open the door, Frances whispers. Find your way through the steam, not even bothering to remove your clothes before stepping in with him.
His hands could slide along where your thin shirt molds against your hips. His fingers could find the hem, slowly gather it, inching higher.

Carrie Ryan