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Ken Thompson

"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

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"On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids."

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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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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."

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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."

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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

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