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I've wanted to own a DeLorean since I was 10 years old, but it always seemed like a silly daydream. Like owning the 'A-Team' van or something.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Always Daydream Like Old Own Owning Seemed Silly Since Something Van Wanted Years

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I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Accelerate Century Friends Gave Generation Late Love Nostalgia Nostalgic Noticed Our Our Generation Turn Us Were I Love 1990S 1980S

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I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Anybody Because Cartoons Common Even Know Movies Nothing Notice Party Raised Same Somebody Still Talk Tv Were Where

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I don't know if the '80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like 'Back to the Future' and 'Star Wars' - movies that became classics.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Back Became Certainly Classics Future Got Know Like Movies Original Star Star Wars Stuff Time Unique Wars Were

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For the whole history of cinema, we've been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start programming entertainment for all the different senses, it becomes a wholly different medium.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Becomes Been Cinema Different Entertainment Experiencing History Medium Movies Once Programming Senses Start Television Through Whole Wholly Window You

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I was always obsessed with the 'Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,' this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits - 'Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League' - and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Adventures Against Always Because Before Box Box Office Credits Crime Cult End First First One Going Had Instinctively Knew League Like Little Made Make Movie Never Obsessed Office Promised Sequel Weird Were World

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'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Characters Ever First My Own Original Own Real Screenplay Story Wrote

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I still tell people, 'I'm pretty sure I'm the only 'Star Wars' fan in history to ever break into Skywalker Ranch by writing a movie about breaking into Skywalker Ranch.'

~Ernest Cline

Topics: About Break Breaking Ever Fan History Movie Only People Pretty Ranch Star Star Wars Still Sure Tell Wars Writing

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'Star Wars' was the mythology of my youth. I longed for adventure.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Adventure Mythology Star Star Wars Wars Youth

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Whenever I watch 'The Matrix,' I think that it is possible, but I don't think that it's going to be machines enslaving humans.

~Ernest Cline

Topics: Going Humans Machines Matrix Possible Think Watch Whenever I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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