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"Basically
Roswell’s a show about three kids in Roswell, New Mexico, who
happen to be aliens. And that
metaphor, I think, applies in our society today with respect that parents
and adults don’t understand kids in some respects; the fact that
teenagers are regarded in a sense as the aliens among us.
I think that there’s a wonderful metaphor that we can really
apply to a show that is really quite fascinating.
These are three kids that are, of course, aliens but they don’t
really know where they come from, [and] they don’t know their own
history. So it’s a
situation…it’s a show about discovery – where they find out about
how they got to where they are, why they are here and so forth, and also
how secrets don’t always…they can’t last for ever and how this
secret world be exposed and so for to various people on the show."
"Basically
this came from the novel. This
was when it was part of the novel the show was kinda based upon and so
forth; the research that was done on that and that background I think was
kinda something we grabbed onto and developed and so forth.
The research of course in any genre and sensibilities is one that
you look and see what else is out there and see what else has been done
successfully and try in many respects to take your own sensibilities to
that to make it your own and make it a show that has a signature and of
course, yes, the handprint is somewhat of a signature of course, isn’t
it?"
"Well
I just think the picture will get a little bit clearer, I think; that
we’ll get a sense of where these kids are coming from.
But I think that it will never be that one penultimate episode that
tells you everything. I think
it will be a series of incidents getting us closer to the big question
mark and things, so hopefully pull the audience towards us, I think, you
know. My attitude is
satisfaction is the depth of desire and if you lose that desire from the
audience and you tell them everything all at once, that isn’t the way to
play the ball game. The key
is to give them enough that they’ll…invite them to come next week and
give them enough that you’re not in a sense trying to fool them by not
giving them the answers and so forth but also bringing them along with the
show and the characters - that I think will be very exciting. … I think
that’s part of the show that’s very important, to keep the audience
involved as far as that’s concerned; as well as getting the audience to
really see these kids as they grow up and see what changes about them."
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