“I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingTryingConventionsNaturalism Author:Wallace Shawn
“I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.” MadeHardMy OwnMoneyMy FamilySaving MoneyHeiress Author:Paris Hilton
“You're always fighting the contradiction between the supposed intimacy of a two-person conversation and the blunt reality that you're trying to sell the play to people who are sitting maybe too far away from you.” PeopleTryingPersonsTwoPlayRealityFightingConversationSittingSellsIntimacyContradictionFar AwayAway From YouBluntAlways Fighting Author:Wallace Shawn
“I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.” FilmGirlWestAppealsBad GirlMaeFilm HistoryScorpios Author:Chloe Sevigny
“I do like to keep abreast of what the hardcore vocal members of the comics-reading audience are talking about on Internet message boards, but there are so few of them, as a percentage of the buying audience, that I can't allow their opinions to dictate story direction.” I CanStoriesReadingTalkingOpinionAudienceInternetMembersMessagesBoardsBuyingVocalPercentagesHardcore Author:Grant Morrison
“It's always interesting to see what the real enthusiasts think, but they're rarely representative of the tastes of the wider audience, so I tend to write for myself, for an imagined smart 14-year-old, and for a couple of friends who are still big comics fans.” ThinkingWritingYearsStillsRealBigsInterestingAudienceFansCoupleTasteSmartRepresentatives Author:Grant Morrison
“I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.” WantWritingTryingKindFans Author:Grant Morrison
“I plan years in advance, but I like to leave enough space in the narrative scheme to change things, because I always get my best ideas the closer I come to the end of a project, after I've lived with it for a while.” YearsIdeasEndsEnoughSpacePlansProjectsNarrativeSchemes Author:Grant Morrison
“I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.” NeedsWritingPagesSizeConstructionDozenSculptureEdits Author:Grant Morrison
“I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.” CareersRecordsToo MuchCuttingStageParticularWillingTasteApproachTrackEditorsProvenInputEditorialsTrack RecordPersonal Taste Author:Grant Morrison