There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about. Steve Erickson charactermovierule Change image and share on social
Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong. Steve Erickson altogetherbigbook Change image and share on social
Pablo Picasso, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Mel Gibson, Lou Reed, Norman Mailer, Vanessa Redgrave, Van Morrison - each is distinguished by controversies unrelated to his or her art; by many accounts, some of them are not nice people at all. Steve Erickson accountartcontroversy share on social
Moviemaking is a time machine: narrative spliced into fragments and reassembled into a constant present, the end of a story shot before the beginning, which is shot after the middle. Steve Erickson beginconstantend Change image and share on social
Every thought and word that a novelist thinks or writes is part of that castle constructed from sands on the beach of Me, including the turret or rampart or moat he may have thought or written on behalf of someone or something else. Steve Erickson beachbehalfcastle share on social
In their matching candy-stripe shirts, the Beach Boys were America's biggest band of the early '60s, transmitting utopian bulletins of summer without end to a cold and overcast nation. Steve Erickson 60samericaband Change image and share on social
If 'Fargo' is about anything, it's American madness. Steve Erickson americanfargomadness Change image and share on social
The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son's age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable. Steve Erickson ageantiquitychoice share on social
Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril. Steve Erickson paradiseperilpitch Change image and share on social
A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche. Steve Erickson asphaltcitycontinuity share on social
