Against the odds, John Carter is itself pretty amazing-an epic pulp saga that slowly rises to the level of its best imitations and wins you over by degrees. I say that as a grown-up moviegoer; behind me at a recent screening was a row of 10-year-old boys who were ecstatically in from the get-go. That's probably all that matters.
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.
Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.
I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.
When an actor marries an actress they both fight for the mirror.
The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where decisions made in the first impact the last.
Everybody lives an epic.
Different influences at different times in my career, and some have stayed with me more, some less. Chester Himes. Ralph Dennis, who wrote a series called Hardman which is a big influence on the Hap and Leonard novels. Harlan Ellison, Philip Jose Farmer, Gerald Kersh, Fredrick Brown, Robert Bloch, and I'm just getting started. I read constantly. As for the epic Western, that's Paradise Sky.
Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.
I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me
There's never been a fantasy movie of the epic battle of good versus evil that ended with evil winning.
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
In order to make a great, epic movie, you have to have the four Bs - babes, bullets, blood and blades.
He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.