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 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 have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
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I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.
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I love Stroker Ace. I love the whole team. Jim Nabors really stole the show, and Ned Beatty, well I've made more of my movies with Ned Beatty than anybody else.
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It's not the networks, it's the advertisers who want to appeal to the young males who go to the movies and buy all of this stuff.
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I found my style and how I like to do makeup from trying and failing and trying and failing again, and unfortunately, I had to do it publicly to figure it out.
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Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.
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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.
