Quotes About Author

If action scenes just happen decontextualized, they lose their weight and the viewer can feel they don't make sense and that they wouldn't have happened that way.

Some IMDB viewers complain that 'Beloved' should have been reclassifed as Horror... well, so should American history.

If there was a blog with five listeners or viewers, I had to be on it. Now I have to be on fewer media, but more substantive media.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.

What I will learn over the years will be of benefit and interest to me personally but, as far as the program is concerned, I'm the mouthpiece of the viewers as well.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.

I had this unusual mix of curiosity, the ability to write in ways people understood, and when I appeared, viewers seemed to trust me to get them through some cataclysmic changes.

My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.

Viewers don't want you to walk the fence - they do want a point of view - and that's what we bring.

My hope is to be a trusted utensil for viewers. Like, literally, 'That thing works. I can rely on that thing.'

Usually viewers are attached to a character or that character's personality. But, in my case, I have been exceptionally lucky as I have been accepted as Shweta.

The general effect of viewing 'Jumanji' is thrilling. I was able to see on film a thing that at one point had only existed in my imagination. I got to see the images from my book come alive.

My way of viewing the talking filibuster was as a way of doing unanimous consent with your feet. You object by going down and talking.

All my books are adventures, but they also have a social viewpoint.

Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.

All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.

I frankly couldn't imagine being a series mystery-fiction writer, churning out book after book about the same viewpoint character.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

There will always be divergence of views on the output gap, as it is unobservable in a rigorous direct sense. There are only estimates. How can there be a strong consensus on that?

Nobody wants to hear my political views... so I won't be talking about that. But on diversity, nobody in this company has worked harder, done more and resourced it better than me.