Matthew Specktor Quotes - Page 2

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• One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

  Matthew Specktor

  Cities, Perception, Negative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have very mixed feelings about the movie business, and about Los Angeles in general.

  Matthew Specktor

  Feelings, Los Angeles, Mixed Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

  Matthew Specktor

  Hate, People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

  Matthew Specktor

  Feelings, Hollywood, Complicated

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Matthew Specktor

  Teenager, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.

  Matthew Specktor

  Jobs, Believe, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a screenwriter. I saw a lot of people who didn't seem very fulfilled creatively or otherwise by their roles in the motion picture industry.

  Matthew Specktor

  Mom, People, Saws

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

  Matthew Specktor

  Parent, Littles, Patient

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

  Matthew Specktor

  Celebration, Sometimes, Prelude

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You look at the absolute scorn that gets poured on a fallen celebrity, whether it's Tom Cruise or Lindsay Lohan or Marlon Brando, or Elvis when he got fat. They're not allowed the dignity of ordinary failure. And I think that plays into people's notions about Los Angeles, too. It's not allowed to be a regular city with problems.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Play, Cities

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The 90s were the decade in which studio filmmaking became a much more purely corporatized process, when their crassness ceased to operate on such a relatively individual scale.

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  Individual, Process, Scales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the publishing industry is dismayingly like the movie business. It grows more corporate by the day.

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  Thinking, Grows, Publishing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him. I'm more interested in what's meaningful within the lives of individuals. And fiction will always be central to the lives of certain people, which is all that matters.

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  Meaningful, People, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

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  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern for me, as for many people, but it's nowhere near as central to the culture as it used to be.

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  People, Culture, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our need to identify with representative figures is something that never goes away. We still find those in novels. We find those in television. We find them in movies. We find them all over the place.

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  Needs, Television, Figures

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

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  Hate, Book, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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.

  Matthew Specktor

  Dollars, Cost, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

  Matthew Specktor

  Thinking, Economic Models, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.

  Matthew Specktor

  Running, Records, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

  Matthew Specktor

  Teenager, Literature, Uninterested

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

  Matthew Specktor

  Writing, Pleasure, Scene

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The '90s were a time when not just the movie business, but every aspect of American life, became a lot more corporate. There's a line in Jonathan Franzen's essay "Perchance to Dream" about how "the rich lateral dramas of local manners have been replaced by a single vertical drama, that of commercial generality." I wanted to examine that great homogenizing force that came in during the '90s, since Hollywood seemed a place where it was particularly active.

  Matthew Specktor

  Dream, Drama, Rich

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The novelist is frequently considered to be an impediment.

  Matthew Specktor

  Novelists, Impediments

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've always found too that somewhere in whatever you've just written lies the seed of what you're going to write next.

  Matthew Specktor

  Lying, Writing, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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