Stephen Hunter Quotes
I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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I realise how important it is to use the time I have. I respect people who want to do that by watching television. I happen to want to read books. But I know I can't read all the books or watch all the movies in one lifetime.
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I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.
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I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.
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I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.
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When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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Go see it and see for yourself why you shouldn't go see it.
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'
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I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.
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I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something -- and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and... they come back on television, those movies... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did.
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I suppose I was formed by too many movies and too much television. At some point I absorbed the dramatic formula.
