44 Steve Erickson Quotes for You to Enjoy

Steve Erickson

American Novelist

Born: Apr 20, 1950

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If Marxist theory dictates that the personal is always political, the rebuttal of both 'The Americans' and 'House of Cards' is that the political is always personal: the sum total of our collective needs and desires, vows and betrayals. Steve Erickson

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Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true. Steve Erickson

Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments. Steve Erickson

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Italian writer-director Paolo Sorrentino makes zombie movies, which probably comes as a surprise to him. At the center of his best and most recent pictures are the walking dead, characters in a race with themselves across mortality's finish line, their spirits arriving before the rest of them. Steve Erickson

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If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness. Steve Erickson

Madness About American Anything Fargo

I rode the buses in L.A. until I was in my early 30s, and there's something about driving or riding through L.A. after sundown, when the Utopian city goes into hiding and another city comes out, more Doors and less Byrds. Steve Erickson

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For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work. Steve Erickson

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Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max. Steve Erickson

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I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive. Steve Erickson

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In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence. Steve Erickson

Politics People Other Journalism Behalf Currency Influence Notoriety Lives

David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster. Steve Erickson

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Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with. Steve Erickson

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Ironically, if only because over the years I've known so many - from college deans to studio executives to European expats - who come to Los Angeles aspiring to nothing other than living in Topanga, I wound up there by accident. Steve Erickson

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is one of the supreme nut jobs in movie history, and of course I mean that in the nicest way. Steve Erickson

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There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about. Steve Erickson

Rule Characters About Like Movies

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