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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."
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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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"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 thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."
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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."
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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."
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"I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell."
Health
"I suppose all writers worry about the well running dry."
Running
"Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that."
Movies
"I read pretty voraciously. If it's good, I don't care what it is."
Care
"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them."
Life
"People often ask me how I make things funny. I don't make things funny."
Fun
"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."
Sympathy
"Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book."
Time
"By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets."
People
"Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."
Will
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