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I've read and traveled a lot in the Middle East, and I built on eyewitness accounts of horrific executions that would shape a boy's character and beliefs if he watched his father die that way. These are the stuff of which nightmares are made.

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Father, Die, Boy, Traveled

I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.

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Always, Stories, Espionage, Weaving

I have nothing but praise for J. K. Rowling. Her contribution - apart from the books themselves, obviously - is showing writers how to interact with the 21st Century.

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Nothing, Interact, Obviously, 21st Century

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

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Play, Movies, Singles, Team Sport

I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.

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Mad, Franchise, Miller, Australians

When I was 10, my father had to go to the local library to sign a release form stating that I was allowed to borrow books from the adult section.

- Terry Hayes

Release, Stating, Allowed, Borrow

The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.

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Work, Give, The Problem With, Lifestyle

It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.

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High, Get, Take, Profile

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

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I Think, About, Put, Driving Force

On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.

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Think, I Think, Stories, Deeper

The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.

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Storytelling, Milieu, Epic

I went to Australia from England when I was right at that age when you learn to read. It's a very confronting thing, traveling halfway around the world and having a mother who was deeply unhappy at ending up in Australia, so you look for some way to find comfort, I guess, and I found it in books.

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Some, Very, Confronting, Halfway

When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.

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Process, Through, Very, Widely

Movie studios could learn a thing or two from British publishers. There is an intelligence, and a respect for writers; things that you hope for and never get in Hollywood.

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Learn, Hollywood, Movie, Studios

I used to be a journalist.

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Used, Journalist

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.

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Hero, Bad, Only, Bad Guy

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