"Traditionally, people have been adapting novels and short stories forever. Now, they're doing it simultaneously, with an eye towards writing the movie before the novel has even come out or been finished. It's a function of this hyper-accelerated society we live in, where everyone is trying to short circuit the process."

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Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

Howard Gordon

#Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes #People Quotes

“placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.”
“I'll never be the sort of author who sells that many copies. You'll never see a book of mine being sold on a table at Costco, between the extra-large jorts and a barrel of salsa. And I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll be indie till I die.”
“Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.”
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
“I don't think people want to see someone buy a congressional race.”

Source : "Willem and able" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.
“Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.”
“Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Moses Mendelssohn: Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible”, p.87, UPNE
“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”

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