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Jack Vance

"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."

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"I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

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Amber Hurdle

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"The movies were custard compared to politics."

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Amber Hurdle

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."

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Amber Hurdle

"I want to do theater and I am looking forward to doing more Television and Movies. I also want to direct some plays in theater workshops for people with disabilities."

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Amber Hurdle

"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."

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Amber Hurdle

"I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies."

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"There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was."
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"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
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"A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment."
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"These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything."
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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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"I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough."
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