Dave Morris
Dave Morris
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To a certain extent advertisers may be more comfortable running in the swimsuit than they were before the growth of those magazines,
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'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
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My favorite saying is that the cup is just the medium for spreading Dutch Love.
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Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.
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One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
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My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
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There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are talking to video game companies about sports-content games. So far we haven't talked to video game companies yet about the swimsuit franchise, but I imagine it'll probably come up.
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There's lots of opportunity for the swimsuit franchise to make it even bigger without making it more frequent. We call it the Super Bowl of print. People will create ads just for this issue, just like they do for super bowl ads. If you add to the frequency, won't be as special.
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Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
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Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.