All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.
Bridget CarpenterI just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
Bridget CarpenterJosh Duhamel is somebody you can't take your eyes off of, and same with T.R. Knight. It's a car that you want to run up to 100 mph, right away.
Bridget CarpenterI read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.
Bridget CarpenterThere was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.
Bridget CarpenterI had been emotionally affected by the story [of Steven King], on my own, and I knew how I wanted to feel watching it because I had felt it already reading it. God bless them, Bad Robot hired me to develop it and I spent the next six months in a room, alone, with a lot of index cards up on a wall, like the guy in A Beautiful Mind.
Bridget Carpenter