Brannon Braga Quotes

United States, Television Producer
August 14, 1965

Brannon Braga is an American television producer, director and screenwriter. He served as an executive producer on the Fox primetime series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a re-launch of the 1980 miniseries hosted by Carl Sagan for which Braga won a Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, and Producers Guild Award. In addition, Braga has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. Braga also served as writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the drama series Salem, WGN America's first original series.

Also known as Director, Screenwriter

You've got your 'X-Files' and now 'Lost,' which is arguably science fiction, though one could say it's something else.

Brannon Braga
- Science fiction
- X-Files
We've endeavored to depict this alien visitation in a different way. It's not going to be the traditional 'ship lands, people come out' kind of stuff. We're trying to do it in ways that would be very strange. A ship hasn't necessarily landed here. There's some other way they've done it. What they're doing to us is very unusual and kind of not quite any way that scientists predicted.

Brannon Braga
- Strange
- Predicted
- Landed

I think it's kinda cool. I think the word would be, um, tasteless!

Brannon Braga
- Word
- Kinda
- Tasteless
Each episode provides a puzzle piece to a larger mystery.

Brannon Braga
- Mystery
- Puzzle
- Episode
Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

Brannon Braga
- Believe
- Journey
- Mortal
We wanted the science fiction to be accessible, that it not be like 'Star Trek,' that it not be technical, and everything has to be explained. We wanted it to be much scarier in the way it's presented.

Brannon Braga