“I've done really well so far in my career by trusting the audience to be as dissatisfied with convention as I am, as a film-goer. You want to go see a film that surprises you in some way.” WayWantWellsDoneFilmCareersAudienceSurpriseConventionsOriginalityDissatisfied Book:Inception: The Shooting Script Source: Inception: The Shooting Script
“In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.” StatesLawFictionAudienceFansPossibilityHeroTestsShouldersConventionsSteelPublishersTenseHeroinesForgedPulpExpectancyWisps Author:S. J. Perelman
“In later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini.” YearsBookDreamKnownBoysAudienceFansNew YorkCreationAgingComicConventionsTiedComic BookClayVesselBrooklynBack WhenHogInterviewersHoudiniBrooklyn New York Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel