Terence
Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, better known in English as Terence, was a playwright of the Roman Republic, of North African descent. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence apparently died young, probably in Greece or on his way back to Rome. All of the six plays Terence wrote have survived...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionWriter
way fancy enough
I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.
book reality comic
I wasn't at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.
garden evening scent
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.
youth illustrators
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
beauty thinking guy
It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
running
Eventually we all run out of road.
way distraction gangsters
Any distraction tends to get in the way of being an effective gangster.
equity trading department
I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.
real character way
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
real focus half
I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.
war book thinking
I started with the book Boardwalk Empire and then immersed myself in the history of Atlantic City, World War I, the temperance movement, Prohibition, pop culture. I even read the news and magazines of the period just to soak in it. That was before I even started thinking of the story.
fighting games office
Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.
drinking airplane thinking
I guess ... I'm going to get that ice cream sundae they give you on the airplane. I usually pass on that, but I think I'm actually going to get extra whipped cream and maybe even the chocolate syrup. I'm really winging it here. I'm going to be flying. It's really a little too early to start drinking.
rough-edges kind certainty
When I tested for Billy Budd, I had that kind of confidence that comes with the certainty that you're not going to get something. I was very rough around the edges.