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The business of taking a book and transforming into a script to make this thing called a film - it's a mysterious process to me; sometimes it works.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Book Business Film Make Me Mysterious Process Script Sometimes Taking Thing Transforming Works

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In terms of target audience, who cares what a middle-aged guy like me wants; most mainstream are not catering to me at all.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Audience Cares Catering Guy Like Mainstream Me Middle-Aged Most Target Terms Wants Who Who Cares

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In terms of behaving in a civic way, I feel my behavior is always exemplary.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Behaving Behavior Civic Exemplary Feel Terms Way I Feel

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I would probably, in my 60s, be ready to start having kids, as long as I was spared all the stuff about it that doesn't appeal to me. By then, I'd have lost interest in practically everything, so there'd be no opportunity cost involved.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Appeal Cost Everything Having Interest Involved Kids Long Lost Me Opportunity Practically Ready Spared Start Stuff Then Would

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My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Burning Evangelical In The Past Man Past Phase Truly Well

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What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Book Constructing Fiction Fits Generic Kind Like Nonfiction Whether

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We still go to nonfiction for content. And if it's well-written, that's a bonus. But we don't often talk about the nonfiction work of art. That's what I'm very interested in.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: About Art Bonus Content Go Interested Nonfiction Often Still Talk Very Well-Written Work

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I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Any Escape Except Film Great More Seen Than Times

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Physical violence is always a bore in films today. We don't see how much it hurts. We don't learn the true consequences of it.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Always Bore Consequences Films How How Much Hurts Learn Much Physical See Today True Violence

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The CGI landscape is another world. It has its own physical laws; it can defy gravity. But surely the wonder of cinematic space is that it is wedded to reality?

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Another Cinematic Defy Gravity Landscape Laws Own Physical Reality Space Surely Wonder World Cgi

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 5th, 1958

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