Quotes by Terry Hayes - Page 1

A hero can only be as good as the bad guy.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Hero
Good Bad Bad Guy
Bad Guy
Good Hero Bad
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Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Computer
Liars
Lying
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If you want to be free, all you have to do is let go.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Ifs
Letting Go
Want
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It doesn't take much to get a high profile in Australia.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Profile
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Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Singles
Sport
Team Sport
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The natural milieu I inhabit is more in epic storytelling.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Epic
Milieu
Inhabit
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The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Behind Your Back
Eye
World
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I got to know Australians well working on the 'Mad Max' franchise with director George Miller.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Max
Australians
Franchise
George
Miller
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I've always had a great affection for espionage stories. I like weaving them, and I like thrillers.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Affection
Espionage
Thrillers
Weaving
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Nobody’s ever been arrested for a murder; they have only ever been arrested for not planning it properly.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Arrested
Murder
Planning
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On a deeper level, I think many stories - especially thrillers - can be a journey to the heart of darkness.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Deeper
Deeper Level
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When I was a kid, I went through the whole process of reading great literature and trying to be very widely read.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Great Literature
Widely
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Some people say that compassion is the purest form of love because it neither expects nor demands anything in return.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Compassion
Love Is
People
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Lifestyle
The Problem With
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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 / Screenwriter
Form
Release
Adult
Allowed
Books
Borrow
Local
Section
Sign
Stating
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Contribution
Praise
Apart
Interact
Rowling
Showing
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Publishers
Studios
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Authority
Driving
Driving Force
God Help
Pace
Plot
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Accounts
East
Horrific
Middle East
Traveled
Beliefs
Watched
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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.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Comfort
Confronting
Halfway
Unhappy
Age World Look
Ending
Age Look World
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A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.
Terry Hayes / Screenwriter
Children
Dog
Teenager
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