One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story. David Selby More Quotes by David Selby More Quotes From David Selby When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing. David Selby creating special people When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did. David Selby theater college class The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are. David Selby perception people way When I was younger I decided I'd hop on the train to New York. David Selby hops new-york train We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools. David Selby community teacher school I never found it frustrating not speaking. David Selby frustrating found I did a lot of personal appearances because I was under contract to ABC. David Selby grooming contracts appearance I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go. David Selby ghouls character thinking I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through. David Selby different television way All I could think of was we were about to start filming for the last final weeks of the TV show and here I am in the hospital, so I missed the final weeks, and a couple days later, sore stomach and all I got on the horse we started filming. David Selby horse couple thinking You know... the wonderful thing about Dark Shadows, the thing about going and looking back at it. It was so sucsessful at creating its own world. David Selby creating shadow dark I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal. David Selby training intuition believe I think family is very important in West Virginia and has long been so because the mountains made travel difficult in the past, and family members had to depend on each other. David Selby past travel thinking Right right, because up to that point I had not been a viewer, and I didn't know alot about the show, it was all new to me and the cast members were wonderful! David Selby new know me wonderful The only thing I wish I had kept were all the peace beads, because in the 1960s people made these and hung them at protests and it was a wonderful thing. David Selby i-wish wish peace people But I had no idea that they were going to pull the plug so quickly. David Selby pull going were no-idea The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one. David Selby really shadows new dark That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. David Selby support important done reason Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show. David Selby show i-am remember trying We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script. David Selby costume days next change
