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The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice ... it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous ...
— J. Michael Straczynski
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
— J. Michael Straczynski
If your going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
— J. Michael Straczynski
My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
— J. Michael Straczynski
You can't always relate to the big action things, but you can relate to small moments.
— J. Michael Straczynski
There are people in life, who show you how to live. There are people in life, who show you how to die.
— J. Michael Straczynski
We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. the Ranger oath — J. Michael Straczynski
We're more RESILIENT. Takes a LOT to destroy a human spirit.
— J. Michael Straczynski
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The thing about denying someone their voice in this life is that it tends to come out in death.
— J. Michael Straczynski
On most TV shows, you work on a set and do some location.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
— J. Michael Straczynski
When in doubt, blow something up.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
— J. Michael Straczynski
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind ...
— J. Michael Straczynski
Angels can't enter hell unless a demon holds open the door, and demons can't enter heaven without an angel's say-so.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
— J. Michael Straczynski
To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'
— J. Michael Straczynski
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I am a huge zombie fan. I have probably seen the George Romero movies 100 times each, without exaggeration.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.
— J. Michael Straczynski
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
— J. Michael Straczynski
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
— J. Michael Straczynski
On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
— J. Michael Straczynski
It is not for the gods to decide whether or not Man exists - it is for Man to decide whether or not the gods exist.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Never enough time. It's never enough time. Was there enough time?
— J. Michael Straczynski
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.
— J. Michael Straczynski
What are the purposes and priorities of teaching? ... First, to inspire. Second, to challenge. Third, and only third, to impart information.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I have to move fast, if I hesitate even a second longer, I'll lose focus and be trapped forever in this ... this ... toilet!
— J. Michael Straczynski
I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.
— J. Michael Straczynski
You can only have one voice on set, and that has to be the director.
— J. Michael Straczynski
People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've changed my mind. I've decided that at the end I want to be cremated and my ashes scattered over someone I don't like.
— J. Michael Straczynski
G'Kar: We are all the sum of our tears. Too little and the ground is not fertile, and nothing can grow there. Too much, the best of us is washed away.
— J. Michael Straczynski
A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Stun settings are for people who can't commit.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Find what scares you and do it.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've worked on high visibility shows that weren't always the best, and low visibility shows that I love but that didn't have the PR behind them.
— J. Michael Straczynski
A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument ... and the occasional bar fight.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.
— J. Michael Straczynski
There can always be new beginnings ... even for people like us.
— J. Michael Straczynski
WE HAVE A WHOLE DEPARTMENT THAT LOOKS AFTER HAPPY COINCIDENCES
— J. Michael Straczynski
When you walk into a movie theater, you don't walk out half-way through, and then come back the next day to watch the rest of it.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I've always been a science fiction fan since I had understood the conception of what a story was.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I think for any writer, creating and controlling your own property is the ultimate dream.
— J. Michael Straczynski
A lot of television tends to assume that audiences don't have the attention span or the IQ to follow a lot of stuff.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Even as I think these words for the first time, the me who is my future self is remembering me thinking these words for the first time.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The universe considers me its personal cat toy.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I like to consider my mind an open door. It's just not a revolving door.
— J. Michael Straczynski
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
— J. Michael Straczynski
A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
— J. Michael Straczynski
No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
— J. Michael Straczynski
If we cannot win, we can at least deprive them of the victory.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
— J. Michael Straczynski
To understand this whole area, you have to stop thinking like a viewer and start thinking like a network programming exec.
— J. Michael Straczynski
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
— J. Michael Straczynski
All love is unrequited. All of it.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
— J. Michael Straczynski
Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.
— J. Michael Straczynski