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9 quotes by John Crowley

John Crowley /ˈkraʊli/ (born December 1, 1942) 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. He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and has been called "a neglected masterpiece" by Harold Bloom and his Ægypt series of novels which revolve around the same themes of...
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Certainly it's very difficult to keep momentum going through a film which has as many characters as this does, and the piece took on a life of... →

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I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape... →

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I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's... →

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But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two... →

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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

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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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Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

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The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up... →

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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... →

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