Clyde Phillips

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Screenwriter · United States Of America · Male

Clyde B. Phillips is a writer and producer for television and film. He has written for the shows Dexter, Shout About Movies, Suddenly Susan, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Midas Valley, and Trapper John, M.D.. He has worked as a producer on Players, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, If Things Were Different, Bud and Lou, and as an executive producer of the shows Dexter, Get Real, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Eddie Dodd, Police Story: Cop Killer, Houston Knights, Northstar, and Midas Valley. 2Career Phillips joined the crew of Showtime television drama Dexter as a showrunner, executive producer and writer for Season 1. He joined the crew after the pilot was already finished and he ended up reshooting some of the scenes and scrapping others. He was nominated for the Edgar award for Best Television Episode (Teleplay), for writing the episode "Crocodile". He returned as the showrunner, executive producer and writer for the second season. Phillips and the writing staff were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for best dramatic series at the February 2008 ceremony for their work on the second season. Phillips remained as showrunner, executive producer and writer for the third season. The writing staff were nominated for the same award at the February 2009 ceremony for their work on the third seaso

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From “Crocodile”

“My sister puts up a front so the world won't see how vulnerable she is. Me? I put up a front so the world won't see how vulnerable I'm not.”

Tagged: sister, Puts up a front, World, Vulnerable

“There are no secrets in life, just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface.”

Tagged: Secrets, hidden truths

“The worst thing about finally putting together a puzzle is finding there are missing pieces.”

Tagged: Puzzle, Missing Pieces

“I see their pain. On some level I even understand their pain. I just can't feel their pain.”

Tagged: Pain, Empathy, sociopathy

“So, Miami is the haystack and the ice truck's the needle, right? Brother, I just found the fucking needle!”

“I can kill a man, dismember his body, and be home in time for Letterman. But knowing what to say when my girlfriend's feeling insecure...I'm totally lost.”

Tagged: Murder, dismemberment, David Letterman

From “Waiting to Exhale”

“Brian: It's human nature. Dexter: I'm not human. Brian: No. You're just fucked up.”

Tagged: Human Nature, Messed Up, humanity, human

“I'm drifting. I finally get a chance to kill and I can't do it, then a second chance and he gets away. And now all my secrets are floating to the surface.”

Tagged: drifting, Kill, chances, Secrets, Surface

“If eyes are the window to the soul, then grief is the door. As long as it's closed, it's the barrier between knowing and not knowing. Walk away from it, and it stays closed forever. But open it and walk through it, and pain becomes truth.”

Tagged: Eyes, Soul, Grief, Pain

From “Our Father”

“Dexter, you've been working such killer hours lately.”

Tagged: Killer, Long hours, Words with double meaning, Killer hours

From “Living the Dream”

“My dark passenger is like a trapped coal miner, always tapping, always letting me know it's still in there, still alive.”

Tagged: Coal Miner, Dark Passenger

From “Fire”

“Tommy: Don't do something stupid, like getting killed. Dion: Yeah, I won't. Tommy: It's just, if anyone kills you, it should be me.”

Tagged: Murder

“If eyes are the window to the soul, then grief is the door. As long as it's closed, it's the barrier between knowing and not knowing. Walk away from it, and it stays closed forever. But open it and walk through it, and pain becomes truth.”

Clyde Phillips

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