JamesG
02-27-2015, 02:13 PM
Resume Review: "Lost" and "Bates Motel" Boss Carlton Cuse Looks Back on his Long and Unique Career
by Natalie Abrams
2/27/15
You joined "Lost" after the pilot was shot.
Do you have any fond memories from your first day on the job that would lead you to believe it would become a big piece of television history?
Absolutely not. "Lost" was something that I did purely out of passion. A lot of people told me I was crazy. I had a comfortable, overall deal at a studio, which I got out of to go take this job. Pretty much everyone expected it to be 12 and out.
But I felt incredibly liberated, because I thought, “We’re just going to make 12 incredibly cool episodes of television, and even if it doesn’t succeed, we’ll have this DVD that people will pass around like The Prisoner or 30 episodes of Twin Peaks.”
The failure option, which was that "Lost" would be 12 and out, seemed actually really positive. It seemed like that would be a totally acceptable solution, that we would make this little cool, culty show.
I think that approach really liberated us, Damon [Lindelof] and I, to be just very fearless about what we did, storytelling-wise. We just did the show that we, ourselves, most wanted to see. I think it was an utter surprise that it became this gargantuan hit.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/26/resume-review-lost-and-bates-motel-boss-carlton-cuse-looks-back-his-long-and
by Natalie Abrams
2/27/15
You joined "Lost" after the pilot was shot.
Do you have any fond memories from your first day on the job that would lead you to believe it would become a big piece of television history?
Absolutely not. "Lost" was something that I did purely out of passion. A lot of people told me I was crazy. I had a comfortable, overall deal at a studio, which I got out of to go take this job. Pretty much everyone expected it to be 12 and out.
But I felt incredibly liberated, because I thought, “We’re just going to make 12 incredibly cool episodes of television, and even if it doesn’t succeed, we’ll have this DVD that people will pass around like The Prisoner or 30 episodes of Twin Peaks.”
The failure option, which was that "Lost" would be 12 and out, seemed actually really positive. It seemed like that would be a totally acceptable solution, that we would make this little cool, culty show.
I think that approach really liberated us, Damon [Lindelof] and I, to be just very fearless about what we did, storytelling-wise. We just did the show that we, ourselves, most wanted to see. I think it was an utter surprise that it became this gargantuan hit.
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/26/resume-review-lost-and-bates-motel-boss-carlton-cuse-looks-back-his-long-and