One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea. Alex Gansa More Quotes by Alex Gansa More Quotes From Alex Gansa The world's a fascinating place right now. Alex Gansa fascinating right-now world That's one of the benefits of having many seasons behind you, is you have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that have a history with your current regulars, so you don't have to start from scratch. Alex Gansa scratches benefits character The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together. Alex Gansa acting together writing Now that the inauguration has happened, things have gotten even more contentious between Trump and the intelligence community, which is what our whole season was about crazily enough, so some of it was fortuitous and some of it was terrifying, but it is what it is. Alex Gansa top-news Obviously the election surprised everybody and we had to adjust in the story room, we did a lot of work trying to figure in this idea that Donald Trump was now the president, and it became quickly apparent then that a lot of stuff that was happening in the real world was [more uncertain] than what we were dramatizing. Alex Gansa top-news They’re writing what we’re all living, you ’d have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to see the drama in the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. Alex Gansa entertainment
