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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
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"What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage."
"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."
"Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets."
"Imminent GM bankruptcy was always fiction, created by Wall Street and the media."
"A man walked across the moors from Razorback to Lancre town without seeing a single marshlight, head-less dog, strolling tree, ghostly coach or comet, and had to be taken in by a tavern and given a drink to unsteady his nerves."
"Flakes of snow swirled and danced across the porch. The Overlook faced it as it had for nearly three-quarters of a century, its darkened windows now bearded with snow, indifferent to the fact it was now cut off from the world. Inside its shell the three of them went about their early evening routine, like microbes trapped in the intestine of a monster."
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
"You can't burn down a made-up place."
"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
"There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't."
"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."
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