Hitchcock preemptively blowing me up for my reaction to rewatching CHUD for the first time as an adult
"Anyway," he added, "it's 1940 and their options are movies, books, radio plays, or maybe a stage play if they live someplace like New York or London. It's not like they're going to consider sitting at home and watching something on a magical box connected to all human artistic endeavor on demand."
The worst thing you can ever do as a writer is to start thinking of your craft like it’s a driving test.
The problem with this approach is that people usually ask me "How was the movie?" after I've gone home from the movies, and not before it.
I need to day "don't be dull" more.
(More context: this was during the writing of Foreign Correspondent)
This is (at least supposedly) where we get the phrase “fridge logic.”
And that is my kind of logic.
Anyone show this to Neil deGrasse Tyson?