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Steve Erickson quotes: The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are. The pornographer? He is concerned with what the characters do, while the artist, the artist is concerned with who the characters are.
Steve Erickson quotes: 'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor. 'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
Steve Erickson quotes: There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about. There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams. Someone dies when the movies get into your dreams.
Steve Erickson quotes: Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance. Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
Steve Erickson quotes: Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril. Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: a dream is only a memory of the future a dream is only a memory of the future
Steve Erickson quotes: When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it. When television captured the popular imagination of the 1950s, a rash of movies satirized Hollywood while also mythologizing it.
Steve Erickson quotes: It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it. It's not always clear whether the filmmaker intends our alienation or is even aware of it.
Steve Erickson quotes: I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me. I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes. Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake. To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end. Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.
Steve Erickson quotes: In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence. In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Steve Erickson quotes: In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.
Steve Erickson quotes: Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one. Since I've never had a dream,' she begins, 'one night I woke and went looking for one.
Steve Erickson quotes: I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov. I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
Steve Erickson quotes: This was the day his life split in two. Her name was Kara. This was the day his life split in two. Her name was Kara.
Steve Erickson quotes: You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them. You are surrounded by signs," she said. "Ignore none of them.
Steve Erickson quotes: L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility. L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.
Steve Erickson quotes: I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read. I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.
Steve Erickson quotes: Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way. Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them. In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: The most telling thing about 'Fargo,' both the now-classic movie and the television series, is that it doesn't take place in Fargo. 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 quotes: 1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more. 1939. Love rages. It cries out from you, seething and red; I come back for more and more.
Steve Erickson quotes: While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite. While I do believe I become a technically better writer over time, in others ways writing gets harder because inspiration is finite.
Steve Erickson quotes: I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.
Steve Erickson quotes: Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning. Everyone, she says, is his own age of meaning.
Steve Erickson quotes: Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths. Let's say I dared to suspend myself in the moment between breaths.
Steve Erickson quotes: Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy? Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?
Steve Erickson quotes: David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
Steve Erickson quotes: America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two? America One," came Wade's voice from the big shadow, "or America Two?
Steve Erickson quotes: The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker. 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 quotes: If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness. If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness.
Steve Erickson quotes: A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated. 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 quotes: Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule. Memory runs by its own itinerary, departing and arriving at stations of the past on its own schedule.
Steve Erickson quotes: Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made. Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
Steve Erickson quotes: When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them. When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.
Steve Erickson quotes: 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. 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 quotes: I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline. I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.
Steve Erickson quotes: Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative. Condemning art as manipulative is a non sequitur, of course. All art is manipulative.
Steve Erickson quotes: The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else. 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 quotes: The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys. The Doors formed on the beaches of Los Angeles, in what you might imagine is the tradition of local rock bands since the Beach Boys.
Steve Erickson quotes: Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic. Drawing the desperate and the adrift, Los Angeles has long been the dumping ground of dreams both real and cinematic.

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