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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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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
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"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."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."
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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."
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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."
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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."
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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
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"When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power."
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"Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science."
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"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."
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"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me."
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"I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored."
Universe
"I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days."
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"For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone."
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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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"It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak."
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