Quotes About Author

The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church.

The only rule I have in how I let characters tell stories is that they must always tell the reader their version of the truth. No one likes being outright lied to, even in fiction.

I was briefly in the original version of 'Tombstone,' but I didn't make the final cut because that movie went through a couple of different permutations.

I love many realists but very strongly resist the notion that realism presents a less stylized, more authentic version of the world.

Coming from a different perspective on a society is really interesting. I love the Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread,' and that's a version of Britishness and Englishness made by an American.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.

I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.

Then I studied theology in college, and when I was getting a Ph.D. in literature, I took courses in New Testament studies and studied Greek versions of the Gospels.

When I write a script, I have all the old versions of the script on my laptop. They're saved as backups in case something goes horribly wrong.

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

I feel like in an interview situation, it's a kind of intimacy that I can understand and handle - versus in real life, when I'm much more of a bumbler and have a hard time.

People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.

I think one of the reasons that I like fiction versus nonfiction is that I myself can kind of disappear from the story.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.

At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not, you're still going to have to deal with good versus evil.

The world is neither running down nor deterministic, and a strict division of order versus chaos is just wrong.

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.

You have to think about space differently; you have to think about time differently when you're talking about a graphic novel versus a movie.

Michael Bisping versus Georges St-Pierre is a money fight, and the UFC loves money fights.

I think Hong Kong people's struggle for democracy is similar to David versus Goliath. But this struggle is not just about me.

When it comes to the producers' song choices versus the judges' song choices, the producers just suggest stuff.

Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.