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Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes
Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes
Seth Grahame-Smith
American
Author
Born:
Jan 4
,
1976
Book
Me
Reading
Think
Work
You
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I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Library
Worth
Congress
Guess
Abandoned
Unpublished
Wrote
Terrible
Another
Got
Were
Decade
Gradually
Short
Screenplays
Stories
After
Short Stories
Literature
Little
Less
Manuscript
Many
Novels
Awful
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Work
Day
Exaggeration
Every Day
Year
Every
Seven
All Day
Guy
Week
Feel
Days
Like
Literally
Planet
Luckiest
I understand exactly what I am.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Exactly
Exactly What
Understand
Am
What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Good
Book
Good Movie
Totally
Makes
Different
Movie
Good Book
Different Things
Things
My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Funny
Experience
People
Dark
Job
First
Enjoy
Would
Dark Shadows
Shadows
Having
Also
Make
Gothic
Still
Foremost
Times
Fun
Even
Needed
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
Seth Grahame-Smith
History
You
Respect
Long
Think
Approach
Period
Any
Fiction
Interesting
Actual
Adapted
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
Seth Grahame-Smith
War
Me
Suffering
Reality
Sometimes
Men
Other
Aligned
Civil
See
Civil War
Ruthless
Absolutely
How
How Much
Line
Were
Walking
Shoot
Movies
Much
Engagements
Fascinated
Many
Each
Prepared
Neatly
Things
Rows
Violent
Imagine
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Work
Challenge
Settings
Relationships
Easily
Characters
Intriguing
Vivid
Reader
Stories
Screenwriter
Deciding
Interesting
Cut
Created
Novelist
Keep
Loads
Imagine
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Confused
Will
Lose
Characters
More
Track
Audience
Than
Get
Movie
Story
Interest
Keep
My day job is making TV shows.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Day
Job
TV
TV Shows
Day Job
Making
Shows
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