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What you want to do in a film is encapsulate the characters and the stories into one focused, coherent two-hour time block, and that's sometimes hard to do especially when you have a group as varied and distinctive as the 'X-Men' are.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With films, you sit down in a seat and once the projector starts going you're stuck for the next two hours. There are no do-overs, rewinding or starting again.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in a direction that is satisfying in the here and non.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
The nice thing about genetics is, I can see my kids doing what I used to do, which is inhaling books like breathing.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
I find now I'm reading a lot more nonfiction, simply because every time I read fiction, I think I can write it better. But every time I read nonfiction, I learn things.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
For me, writing the 'X-Men' was easy - is easy. I know these people, they're my friends.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
One of the fun things in the old days about writing with Frank Miller was that every issue of 'Daredevil' was a challenge to every issue of 'X-Men.'
Quote by -Chris Claremont
I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?
Quote by -Chris Claremont
When you're an adolescent, you suddenly wake up one morning and your body is an enemy. There are hormonal changes, physical changes, emotional changes. People are saying to you, 'Now you have to make the decisions that define the rest of your life.' The X-Men takes those elements and pushes them one giant step farther.
Quote by -Chris Claremont
My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
As you know, divorce is still not allowed in the Catholic Church. But here insert a large 'however' - she is liberal in the granting of annulments.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
In public relations, you live with the reality that not every disaster can be made to look like a misunderstood triumph.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
Coming to terms with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee is like being told you have Stage 1 or Stage 2 cancer. You know you'll probably survive, but one way or the other, there's going to be a lot of throwing up.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I'd worked at the White House for two years, and I'd read a bunch of White House memoirs because everybody who works at the White House, even for five minutes, writes a memoir usually not less than 600 pages long - and never without the word 'power' in the title.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
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I spent, whether consciously or unconsciously, most of my career trying to be something other than William F. Buckley's son.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I am not a political thinker. I'm not even much of a thinker. I'm a hack novelist.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley
I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.
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Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life.
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I love Washington. I have an affection for the place. For a satirist, I think it's sort of Disneyland. I mean, you know, there's always some inspiration in the morning's headlines.
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My mother spent a month in a Swiss hospital after a terrible ski accident.
Quote by -Christopher Buckley