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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
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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 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."
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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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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot."
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"I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."
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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."
Chance
"There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era."
War
"I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back."
People
"I enjoy learning technical details."
Learning
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
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"Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers."
Movies
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
Woman
"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
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"The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."
Research
"It was the most romantic plane ever made."
Aviation
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