"The Lord of the Rings movie set an entirely new standard for fantasy in the movies."

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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Being, Choice

"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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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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."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Movies, Decisions, Television

"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Movies, Jazz, Writers

"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."

Orlando Bloom, English Actor

Movies, Film, Responsibility

"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?"

Christian Bale, Welsh Actor

Movies, Idea, Character

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

John Sayles, American Director

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author."

Reading

"I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind."

Education

"All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there."

History

"Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians."

Society

"Actually, after while, finding the ideas is the easy part. Sorting them through and turning them into stories, now, that's the hard work."

Work

"I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus."

Earth

"I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say."

People

"Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is."

Change

"Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well."

Beginning

"When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking."

Dance