Latest Bryan Fuller Quotes from Interviews

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• I had always loved horror films, so I wanted to do something in the horror genre but wanted it to be sweet and charming at the same time. Because there's a difference between watching horror, where you can leave it behind, and writing horror, where you have to live in it for months and months at a time.

  Bryan Fuller

  Sweet, Writing, Horror

  Source: www.esquire.com

• You are what you worship. There's something so true about that, with how we're operating as a culture in America. People believing in a wide variety of things, and rarely believing in the same thing. It gives us an opportunity to have a conversation: What is faith? What is belief? What is your personal responsibility for how you see yourself in the grander scheme of the universe, and life, and your contribution to it?

  Bryan Fuller

  Believe, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.gq.com

• If it is true that if you believe in something, you manifest it, there are many Jesus Christs in the universe, because there are many different cultural interpretations of Jesus.

  Bryan Fuller

  Jesus, Believe, Different

  Source: www.gq.com

• Jesus Christ, being 2000 years old and some change, is a relatively "new" god of the older god category - and has done quite well for himself, in terms of worship.

  Bryan Fuller

  Jesus, Done, Worship

  Source: www.gq.com

• We're looking at a lot of race cars as inspiration for our starships. It's wonderful. It's surreal. I didn't want to be a writer. I wanted to be a Star Trek writer, so to be able to craft a new iteration of the show with new characters and a whole new adventure and whole new way of telling stories that you haven't been able to tell on Star Trek is honorable and it's a dream come true. It's hard to articulate that.

  Bryan Fuller

  Dream, Inspiration, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

• I think the progressive audience that loves Star Trek will be happy that we're continuing that tradition being progressive and all-inclusive. Star Trek's not necessarily a universe where I want to hear a lot of profanity.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Tradition, Progressive

  Source: collider.com

• Our idea for Hannibal Lecter is that he's very reactionary - he's somebody who can adapt really well to circumstances.

  Bryan Fuller

  Ideas, Circumstances, Wells

• I think because it is a very well-saturated story,episode of Justified in Hannibal, and we've all heard it in some frame of a story, we've heard the urban legend of waking up in a bathtub with a kidney missing. It felt like if we are telling an organ-harvesting story, it was really about quickly selling the iconography of an organ-harvesting story, and then being able to mask that as a perfect way for Hannibal Lecter to go shopping for his menu.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Shopping, Urban Legends

• For Hannibal, it's really about food as art and also, Hannibal's specific brand of art. And I guess I'm a bit of a foodie.

  Bryan Fuller

  Art, Brands, Bits

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• Food is life. Food is also very sensual, and in Pushing Daisies, pie being reflective of life and a man who was disconnected from the living but could bring the dead back to life being a pie maker felt like I got the symbolism of food as life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Men, Symbolism, Pie

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• The idea of suggesting that Hannibal Lecter - in the book, he has a sixth finger and red eyes, and so there is a devilry in Thomas Harris' presentation - so it felt like it was completely honest and appropriate for the character. And we often talk in the writers' room, "Okay, there is the Hannibal as the devil explanation of that plot point, but we also need to ground that in a reality that is answerable to the physics of the storytelling."

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Character, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Our Generation, Comedian

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• Silence Of The Lambs is a fantastic film. It's a horror film, and it's an incredibly well-told film that is about point of view in such a unique way. The way that film is shot, the way the eyelines are so close, if not directly into camera, betrays an intimacy with the characters and the audience.

  Bryan Fuller

  Character, Unique, Views

• That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.

  Bryan Fuller

  Reality, Ideas, Quality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love the supernatural in storytelling. The Twilight Zone was a huge influence on me, in terms of writing and storytelling, where you're not restricted to the parameters of reality to tell your tale.

  Bryan Fuller

  Twilight, Writing, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

  Bryan Fuller

  Two, Stories, Toes

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

  Bryan Fuller

  Levels, Life Is, Really Deep

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Growing up, there were a lot of funerals that I attended, and the adults at the funerals went out of their way to make sure that I wasn't traumatized or overly depressed by them. So death is always a celebration of life for me, and it's also hugely dramatic.

  Bryan Fuller

  Growing Up, Funeral, Adults

  Source: www.avclub.com

• As a horror movie fan, I was very obsessed with horror films. Still am. I love the genre. For me, horror films are opera, and they are... instead of consumption killing off the young lovers, it's Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. It is when the stakes are at their absolute largest in a story: whether somebody is going to live or die. In a way, it's just holding up a mirror to life.

  Bryan Fuller

  Mirrors, Young Love, Opera

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer.

  Bryan Fuller

  Shadow Of Death, Games, Wild Life

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• We were all inspired by him as an actor and his iconography and thought, if we get somebody like Laurence Fishburne, we can tell a much more sophisticated, complicated version of Jack Crawford than we'd seen before as this large and in-charge and in-control guy, who is unflappable.

  Bryan Fuller

  Guy, Iconography, Actors

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

• Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

  Bryan Fuller

  Book, Dragons, Red

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Molly Shannon such an interesting actress that portrays vulnerability and danger at the same time, because she seems brittle in that role.

  Bryan Fuller

  Interesting, Roles, Actresses

• Cinema and emotion trump reality for me.

  Bryan Fuller

  Reality, Cinema, Emotion

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. Interview with Jim Halterman.

• We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.

  Bryan Fuller

  Animal, People, Second Thoughts

  "Homoerotic Charge of 'Hannibal'". Interview with Jim Halterman, www.newnownext.com. Apil 22, 2014.