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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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"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."
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"And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen."
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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
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"January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out."
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"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in."
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"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
Career
"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks."
Trust
"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
Crime
"Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is."
Movies
"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
Writing
"My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits."
Decision-Making
"Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so."
Writing
"The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course."
Life
"If high heels were so wonderful, men would be wearing them."
Man
"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
Creativity
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