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The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.
— Steve Erickson
'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
— Steve Erickson
By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.
— Steve Erickson
Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.
— Steve Erickson
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
— Steve Erickson
Notwithstanding the likes of 'All the President's Men' in the 1970s or HBO's recent 'The Newsroom,' film and TV have always loved to hate the press.
— Steve Erickson
a dream is only a memory of the future
— Steve Erickson
When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
— Steve Erickson
It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.
— Steve Erickson
I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.
— Steve Erickson
Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.
— Steve Erickson
As a genre, the noir of post-World War II was based on characters who were weak or repellent, bound to let down us and themselves.
— Steve Erickson
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
— Steve Erickson
If I had it to do all over again ... I wouldn't change a thing.' ... the final expression of narcissism, the last gesture of self-congratulation.
— Steve Erickson
To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
— Steve Erickson
I'm not sure there's a difference between books that affected the way I see the world and books that influenced me as a writer.
— Steve Erickson
Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.
— Steve Erickson
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
— Steve Erickson
In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.
— Steve Erickson
Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.
— Steve Erickson
I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
— Steve Erickson
This was the day his life split in two. Her name was Kara.
— Steve Erickson
You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them.
— Steve Erickson
L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.
— Steve Erickson
I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
— Steve Erickson
Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
— Steve Erickson
Representing not just the resurrection of a career, 1953 marked 37-year-old Frank Sinatra's creative emergence as the best singer of his century.
— Steve Erickson
In 1957's 'There's No You,' Sinatra is suspended at the intersection of a loss he can't face and a memory he can't relinquish.
— Steve Erickson
The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo.
— Steve Erickson
1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.
— Steve Erickson
While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
— Steve Erickson
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
— Steve Erickson
Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.
— Steve Erickson
Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.
— Steve Erickson
Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?
— Steve Erickson
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
— Steve Erickson
The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.
— Steve Erickson
If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.
— Steve Erickson
A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
— Steve Erickson
Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
— Steve Erickson
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
— Steve Erickson
When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.
— Steve Erickson
Quentin Tarantino is my 15-year-old son's favorite director, and by that I mean no condescension to either Tarantino or my 15-year-old son.
— Steve Erickson
I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
— Steve Erickson
Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
— Steve Erickson
The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.
— Steve Erickson
