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Steve Erickson Quotes

Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle.

Steve Erickson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 20, 1950

Topics

Time Beginning Story Present End

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

Joanne Harris

Someone Feelings Hiding Like Around

I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.

Max Joseph

Learning Time Art People Energy How

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.

Ann Landers

Thought Talking You Fast Trouble

It's not an easy gig, being in the NRL sometimes: you always feel for the boys because you have that mutual respect knowing what they go through.

Sonny Bill Williams

Respect Feel Easy You Go Sometimes

Writing is weaponized empathy. It's putting yourself in someone else's head. It's finding what's in them that relates to you.

Tom King

Yourself Empathy Writing Someone You

At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

School Me Writing Thinking Learn

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

Julia Glass

Good Technology I Am Reading Thing

But most good movies have a gun in them.

David Sedaris

Good Gun Movies Most Them

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

Clint Howard

Great People Me Golf Acting Play

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

Anthony Hopkins

World Driver

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

Peyton Manning

Game Back Fame First NFL Pass

You have to find the movie in the editing room, and it can't be four hours; it has to be two hours.

Peter Landesman

You Find Editing Two Room Four