The Shawshank Redemption’ isn’t a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends – it’s a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that’s the purpose of storytelling. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire – it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
I always like to write myself into a corner. I think the best stuff comes from only having a few ways out. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
I think television is about the characters you want to see again, and so you want to invite these people into your home. And certainly, seeing them get into bad situations and then watching them have to get themselves out, that’s always super satisfying. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
There are so many different things that create an alchemy of success. Just like there are so many different things that create an alchemy of a failure. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
I first became a showrunner at 36 years old. I had no experience doing this job, which is as complicated and multi-faceted as anything I’d ever tried. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
If everyone knows the role they play, and they do their job – executing it well and with enthusiasm – it comes together successfully every time. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
