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18 quotes by Stephen Gaghan

Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.
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At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to... →

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More attention and thought goes into naming a character in 'Call Of Duty' than all the work that can go into certain movies. Blood and sweat... →

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My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of crazy unproduced plays that... →

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I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

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It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people... →

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Starting in '98 when I was researching 'Traffic,' I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of... →

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I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.

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Life serves up satire. Unfortunately. Or fortunately. I don't know. You have to reel it in to drama.

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The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in... →

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I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual writer. In my... →

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I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he's going. None. Zero. And... →

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I love the op-ed pages of the 'L.A. Times,' the 'Washington Post' and the 'New York Times.' There's just no substitute... →

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