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"I
think every writer in a certain way wants to sort of find that kind of Romeo
and Juliet love story. In trying to find a contemporary love
story with real obstacles it's very difficult because now, if you think
about teenagers falling in love, it's like well, why wouldn't anyone be
able to be together, but here there's a real obstacle in that they're
different life-forms and so there's like really a reason for them that
keep them apart."
"I'm not a big
science-fiction person or a UFO guy, which is why to me it was really
important to set this in the eyes of Liz. To me what's really
interesting about the story is to tell a story about the last person in
the world who would believe in this stuff and then this happens. And
that's why I sort of decided to tell the story through her eyes and use
her journal about it. To me what could be really wonderful about the
show is getting grounded emotionally in these characters, so you start to
see it through their eyes. I'm interested in seeing Max and Isabel
and Michael...I'm interested in sort of humanising them and understanding
sort of the emotional underpinnings of what they're about, and telling it
as a very real human story."
"In reading the
novel that it was based on, I thought it was a wonderful premise -
although the book was really good - but it was a wonderful premise for a
series. I thought that it was something that you really had like a
lot of places to go and the thing I like about it other than...that
differentiates it from My So-Called Life and Relativity is
that you have a strong metaphor at the centre of the show. You have
this metaphor of teenagers and aliens that when you're a teenager,
everybody's an alien and everybody feels alienated. And I think that
a lot of the metaphors that we'll be exploring as we go on with the show
of search for their...of the aliens trying to find out where they're from
and everything is going to be about again, working at a metaphorical
level. Things like search for family, search for home, the need to
fit in, and all the stuff and so I think that there is a very exciting
thing about the metaphor that's at the centre of the show."
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