Jason Blum Quotes
I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
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I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
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Films don't decide my whole life. They are just a part of who I am. What I do in my personal life should be of no concern to the filmmakers or the fans.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Governors normally have jurisdiction over public health emergencies, but a widespread biological attack would cross state boundaries.
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When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
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It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.
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Frankly, I thought we would have lost the House by now.
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In 1983, I was working at an art gallery in Los Angeles and going to film school at Los Angeles City College. At that time, Jean-Michel Basquiat was a young painter and was visiting L.A. for his first show at the Larry Gagosian Gallery.
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You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
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‘...You know what they call you expatriates? White leeches.’
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When we're traveling for games, I always go down and have breakfast with the team - that's a must.
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My daughter loves to be surprised. And she loves to surprise me. She loves to create games where either one or both of us are surprised, or go away, and then come back. And she loves to play them over and over, and over again. The combo is familiar. Go away. Come back. Surprise! She is only two. I better get used to this.
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If you spend time with your loved ones, you get the energy to do your job better.
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When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'
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Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?
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I think if you went to a studio and pitched the first 'Insidious,' it never would have gotten made because it was so offbeat.
