English - Writer | June 5, 1958 -
Once you've published a few books, you drag around this ball and chain of a back list. All the evidence of how few you've sold is there. I think a lot of writers my age have this strange experience of going from would-be to has-been.
Geoff Dyer
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For me, those little cinemas in Paris where I saw many art films for the first time meant that cinema became a kind of pilgrimage site.
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The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.
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In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.
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In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.
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I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so there'd be no opportunity cost involved.
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My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.
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We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.
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I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'
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Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.
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The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?
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Making the ordinary potentially magical is what film should be all about.
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