Matthew Specktor Inspirational Quotes (30)

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.

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.

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

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

I'm going to write what I feel like writing, which is a great place to be. But it can be hard to get there. It's so easy to get stricken with one kind of self-consciousness or another.

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.