Quotes by Matthew Specktor

Matthew Specktor

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

Cost

Dollars

Might

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it’s not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

My Favorite

People

Soldier

A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.

Book

Hate

People

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

Casualties

Culture

People

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Giving

Sometimes

Thinking

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they’re smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn’t take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.

Ideas

Teenager

Thinking

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I’m still trying to convince myself that’s true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don’t. Even in the book industry.

Book

Trying

Tvs

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

Understanding

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Book

Nothing To Lose

Written

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I’ve known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

Quality

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Apology

Art

Believe

Betrayal

Book

Care

Casualties

Celebration

Children

Cities

Complicated

Cost

Culture

Decision

Dollars

Drama

Dream

Economic Models

Enough

Feelings

Fiction

Figures

Film

Gains

Giving

Grows

Hate

Hated

Hollywood

Humane

Ideas

Imagine

Impediments

Individual

Jobs

Kind

Know How

Literature

Littles

Los Angeles

Lying

Mean

Meaningful

Men

Might

Mixed Feelings

Mom

Multinationals

My Favorite

Needs

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Quotes by Matthew Specktor

Matthew Specktor

100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it’s not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

A lot of talent, a lot of the currency that movies used to have, has spilled over into TV. People talk about TV the way they used to talk about movies and, as much as I hate to say it, the way they used to talk about books.

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they’re smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn’t take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas.

Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I’m still trying to convince myself that’s true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don’t. Even in the book industry.

Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I’ve known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

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