Ehren Kruger Quotes

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.

We're huge fans of 'Game of Thrones' for example, 'Orphan Black.' And even though those shows don't necessarily correlate directly with 'Arrow,' I'm a very big believer that writers are the product of their inspirations.

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall' is one of the greatest movies ever written.

Sometimes, I think filmmakers grab too much from real life.

To be honest, I looked at 'The Shining' as just doing another movie.

I grew up on Edgar Allen Poe, and I loved Alfred Hitchcock's movies.

There's a lot of people I take stuff from, and it's mostly bad guys in movies.

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.

I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake.

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

I feel like my job is to make impact, spread love, tell great stories, inspire people, that's what I am going to do.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

In general I think the inspiration was to think about all those movies that I saw as a kid and never knew they were remakes, because I know there's probably another kid going to watch Evil Dead who has no idea.

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

I just didn't see films when I was young. I was stupid and naïve. Maybe I wouldn't have made films if I had seen lots of others; maybe it would have stopped me.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

I think now I'm just excited to continue directing and find stories that inspire me and bring those to the screen.

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

Movies always fascinated me. They are an endless source of inspiration. There are countless images by great directors that made a profound impression on me, and I see film as a sublime example of teamwork.