John Crowley
John Crowley
John Crowley /ˈkraʊli/is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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They played a very up-tempo game, which is what we wanted from the beginning. This was probably the most complete game we played in about three weeks. We did a nice job overall.
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I thought the kids played their hearts out.
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This, there was no comparison. It was probably the largest mass casualty incident anybody had responded to.
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The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.
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The cab driver gave the officer an earring he found inside his cab right after he dropped the fare off,
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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
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This is the first time in history that we've evacuated a whole city,
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The state has made efforts, intensive efforts as I understand it, to get people to sign up.
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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.
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Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of its own to try and shape it. That took all the time we had in editing.
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
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It's glorious, because the story is always moving forward through the dialogue. So I always felt on very safe ground with the script.
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We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.