On Season 4
“The scripts this season are just amazing. The sets are crazy. It feels like we’ve shot about three movies already. It’s super intense, and everything’s for a specific reason, and it’s great right now.”
“They’ve introduced a way to make zombies scary again, and they’re terrifying. The new threat is just unreal. I can’t of course tell you what that is, but it’s brilliant writing.”
On Scott M. Gimple now running the show
“Yes, of course, with new people there’s chance. But also, when Frank was the showrunner, Glenn was his number two, so we knew Glenn. And when Glenn took off, we already knew Scott. As far as the internal group, we’re all the same people, but the structure of the writing’s a bit different, and it’s so intense. These are our best scripts so far.”
On Daryl's feelings about the people from Woodbury coming to the prison
“Daryl’s got a little bit different responsibility right now. We all do. People have sort of fallen into their crevices so to speak, who they are within this group and what they contribute. There’s a whole bunch of different elements to that. When you find people that are alive and can contribute and help build something, everyone takes a helm and everyone takes responsibility for it. There’s also all these new personalities as well, you just have to watch.”
On Merle's death
“That day sucked for me personally. Michael Rooker’s a good friend of mine. It sucks when you do scenes like that, because you read the script and you go, ‘Ok, this day’s going to suck.’ And it did. But as far as Daryl’s character, I think he grew up a lot in that moment. He got hard.”
“The thing about having a big brother sort of under his thumb for awhile, he wasn’t there except for that one hallucination that he had in the Chupacabra episode. I think he sort of during that time started to become this man that he was never going to be before. And when he was reunited, he kind of reverted back to little brother mode for a little while. If you noticed in that arena scene, it’s all about me connecting with Rooker.”
On his new book
“I have a book coming out, that I’m working on right now. It’s coming back from the publishers, like what do you call it, the first run of it.”
“Some of the photographs [I'd been selling off my website], I would print them in large format and send them to people, and that money went to charity. But people have been asking me for a book for so long, so I’m working on like a coffee table book right now, so that should come out soon.”
On his previous roadkill photos auctioned for charity
“They asked me to take photos of my time down in Georgia, and I kind of think that they wanted behind the scenes photos on the set. Which of course I’m not allowed to do, you know unless it’s in my trailer with my tongue sticking out.”
“I sent them the photos, and they kind of freaked out. ‘These are holiday shoppers in New York. They don’t want to see cats with their eyeballs popped out.’ But they went for it, and we sold every one of them. It was thirty photos.”
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