133 Quotes by Steve Erickson

The material dictates the approach. I tell the stories in the way that feels natural to tell them. Certainly the last thing I want is to be "difficult."

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.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

From our house we see the Northern Lights quite a bit. But this was really something.

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

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.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

I think we can fairly conclude that writer-director Joss Whedon didn't make 'The Avengers' for me.

In the end I write the novels I need to write when I need to write them.