John Crowley
John Crowley
John Crowley /ˈkraʊli/is an American author of fantasy, science fiction and mainstream fiction. He studied at Indiana University and has a second career as a documentary film writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 December 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.
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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
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Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.
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Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
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I thought the kids played their hearts out.
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I think the fact that it's character driven meant that however technically complicated it got on set, I was always directing actors.
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First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.
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We decided we wanted the hospitals to have an opportunity to digest this information (before) we would issue a press release,