Kurt Sutter Quotes

• I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Successful, Color

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• What happens on “Mad Men” in terms of the acting and the writing and the directing, it’s superior. And yes, it has tremendous cache and buzz because it’s become iconic, but it also deserves all the kudos and the awards as well, because it’s a beautiful show to look at.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Men

  "Kurt Sutter Reflects On ‘Mad Men’ Controversy: Beef Was With AMC, Not Matt Weiner". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

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  Determination, Children, Artist

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• I'm a guy desperately in need of buffers. I have big feelings, big reactions, big emotions. All the things that serve me as an artist, but challenge me as a socially-responsible human being.

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  Artist, Guy, Challenges

  "Kurt Sutter Quits Twitter Days After Controversial Frank Darabont, 'Mad Men' Rant" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I have a loose blueprint of where I want the show to go. I stress, quite frankly to remind myself, that I hold onto that vision very loosely, so that I can be moving towards something, but I don't ever want to feel like I'm in a box that'll stop me from exploring a potential new direction.

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  Stress, Moving, Vision

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I love being able to stay real to the world.

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  Real, Love Is, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The whole Twitter phenomenon is really indicative of what's happening in this country. And I say this in condemnation of myself as much as anyone else - we are growing into a nation that has no time, desire or capacity for truth. All we can handle is 140 characters of knowledge.

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  Country, Character, Desire

  "R.I.P. Krazy Kurt Sutter's Twitter Feed" by Matt Ufford, uproxx.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.

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  Arrogant, Insufferable, I Can

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• I always have a sense of where I want to end each season, emotionally and relationship wise and with the theme, and I'm always able to hit that.

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  Wise, Want, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.

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  Mistake, Character, Interesting

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• I think there's a part of me that feels the need to hide a little bit behind a character.

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  Character, Thinking, Needs

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2016

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• I started doing some more specific research on Wales in that period because I like the idea of being authentic to the territory, and with that came the knowledge that there was this great rebellion that was happening with the Marcher barons and conflict with the king. A lot of it wasn't documented by the English.

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  Kings, Ideas, Research

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.

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  Curves, Games, Long

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• I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.

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  Kids, Essentials, Television

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• I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.

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  Writing, Focus, Guy

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• I've always wanted to play with this idea - and I didn't want to leave it to the last season, but I wasn't quite sure when it was going to happen - of putting Jax [sons of Anarchy] at the head of the table and the ripple effect on the guys and the loyalties of it and where people land.

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  Loyalty, Son, Land

  Source: collider.com

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• The great thing about having a serialized drama (like 'Sons of Anarchy') is that I'm allowed to bring up events and circumstances that have happened in the past in other episodes to show that this kind of violence doesn't happen in a vacuum. It has ramifications. It has repercussions. Whether it's a week from now or five years from now, you know it will play out. Nothing is ever tied up into a perfect knot.

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  Drama, Son, Past

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• My production team doesn't like not knowing what anything is going to look like, but creatively, that's fun.

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  Fun, Team, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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• As an actor, I've been drawn to those characters that are further away from who I may be.

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  Character, Actors, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.

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  People, Giving, Weight

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• Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

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  Drama, Reality, Fiction

  "Sons Of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter talks about plunging into the underworld with Outlaw Empires". Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.

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  Wife, Cartoon, Dramatic

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• I've learned in most areas of my life, to bounce heated choices off other people. Co-workers, my agent, my wife, a sponsor, etc. A majority of the time, that keeps me on the right side of things.

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  People, Wife, Choices

  "Kurt Sutter Quits Twitter Days After Controversial Frank Darabont, 'Mad Men' Rant" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 15, 2011.

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• The lazy blogosphere has given up on journalism and now trolls Twitter for their on-the-record in-depth articles.

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  Lazy, Depth, Records

  "Captain Qwitter and the Battle of the super cunts" by Kurt Sutter, sutterink.blogspot.ru. August 14, 2011.

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