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Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research. -- Holly Black
Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. -- Douglas Lain
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do. -- Marilyn Manson
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much. -- Campbell Scott
Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors. -- Mark Burnett
A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek. -- Jane Wiedlin
Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Books and movies are never finished, only surrendered. -- Chuck Hogan
I cry in movies a lot, and over books. -- Hayley Mills
I just wanted to live in books and in movies. -- Janet Fitch
There's something so satisfying about road trip movies - and books! -- Kristan Higgins
There are so many books and movies I like; I never mention specific ones. -- Hideo Kojima
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. -- Kevin Bacon
I'd actually read the 'Twilight' books and seen the movies, and I was a fan. -- Judi Shekoni
Books are like movies of the mind and it's better to leave Kinsey where she is. -- Sue Grafton
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. -- Emily Giffin
Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises. -- Nick Woodman
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. -- William Landay
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. -- Tom Clancy
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies. -- Bret Easton Ellis
I get ideas from everywhere: movies, books, movies, nature - it comes into my brain, it sits there for a while, and it starts coming back out. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia. -- Troy Duffy
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa. -- Grant Morrison
There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare. -- Tatiana de Rosnay
I love depressing movies and depressing books. -- Amy Sedaris
Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. -- S. E. Hinton
Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there. -- Casey Affleck
As far as books getting turned into movies, I fared very, very well. -- Kate DiCamillo
The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected. -- Stan Lee
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. -- Anthony Minghella
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. -- Carole Bouquet
There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones. -- Hideo Kojima
The most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes. -- Nat Wolff
We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf. -- Chris Cleave
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books. -- Josh Hutcherson
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. -- Nicolas Roeg
All screenwriting books are bullshit, all. Watch movies, read screenplays. Let them be your guide. -- Brian Koppelman
Magazines, books, novels, TV, internet, movies - all of those things is what creates our consciousness. -- Jane Fonda
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different. -- Stephen King
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look. -- Trent Reznor
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights. -- Scott Rudin
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible. -- Nicholas Sparks
I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest. -- Rain
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books. -- Werner Herzog
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life. -- Rob Zombie
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer. -- Franka Potente
I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read. -- Jim Harrison
I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc. -- Dolly Parton
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way. -- M. Ward
Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do. -- Anita Elberse
I actually love Stephen King's writing. I mean, we, actually, at Castle Rock, we've made seven movies out of Stephen King books. -- Rob Reiner
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking. -- Criss Jami
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them. -- Ian MacKaye
The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books. -- Stan Lee
I have an eclectic taste in stuff whether it be movies or music or books or food or anything. Variety is interesting. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho. -- Marc Almond
I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that. -- Danny Boyle
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream. -- Elvis Presley
I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood. -- Michael Uslan
People aren't stupid. People wanna see good movies, especially comedies. Those by the books comedies, I don't get it. Who likes those? Nobody likes those. -- Emma Stone
A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me. -- Joss Whedon
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. -- Alice Hoffman
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Science fiction is always a vehicle for ideas. It's the form which allows either movies or books to be an exploration of how we should live. -- Salman Rushdie
I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors. -- Tatiana de Rosnay
Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out. -- Frederick Busch
Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men. -- Stephen King
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them. -- Jasper Fforde
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. -- Karen Marie Moning
Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas. -- Anita Elberse
I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world. -- Steve Hockensmith
I grew up not reading fiction; I watched movies and read comic books, and one of the ways I taught myself to think about narrative was through film. -- Kevin Wilson
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies. -- Clive Barker
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of people won't even read science fiction books. -- David S. Goyer
I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch. -- Hillary Clinton
I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man. -- Emma Stone
People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do. -- Oliver Stone
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience. -- David Sedaris
The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just this physical body and our capacity for love and courage can bend reality. -- Caity Lotz

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