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“This thing has dragged on for so long that it has developed a mythology of its own. People who started this project have retired. It was good to actually meet and understand each other's motivations.”
Tom Drake
“At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age", but a spiritual dead end.”
Joseph Campbell
“There have been lots of great shows that have complicated mythologies. It didn't seem to hurt The X-Files, and it doesn't seem to be hurting Lost.”
David Goyer
“The courage to face the trials and to bring... possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience that is the hero's deed. We have only to follow the heros path, and where we had thought to find abomination, we shall find a God. And where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves... Where we had thought to travel outward we will come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone we will be with all the world.”
“If you have the mythology clear in your mind from the get-go, and you've laid it out and you have a sense of where you're going, you're in good shape. If you're making it up as you go along, I think that's when you get into trouble. We need to be mindful about having big, surprising payoffs that feel intrinsic to the premise. We've endeavored to depict this alien visitation in a different way. It's not going to be the traditional 'ship lands, [aliens] come out' kind of stuff.”
Brannon Braga
“Today, July 4th, 2012, I donated money to an Atheist (Religious Antagonist). I did this in honor of our Founding Fathers who did their very best to keep these self-righteous vipers from hell from using their mythological god to put the people of the United States in bondage from which they had risked their lives to escape from.”
Bobby W. Miller
“It's part of the mythology surrounding the music business that spending huge amounts of marketing monies will ensure commercial success. This simply isn't so. If the music isn't compelling from the audience's perspective, no amount of spending will make it a hit.”
Al Teller
