"Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that."

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"Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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Movies, Development, Character, Connection

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

Darren Aronofsky, American Director

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"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one."

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"That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

"I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl."

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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

"An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table."

"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."

"Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one."

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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."

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