I think there's really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably 'Tomb Raider.' Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.
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Related I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good gam... NOLAN BUSHNELL The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It ... GUS VAN SANT For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a 'Tomb Raider,' has helped me get ... ANGELINA JOLIE People always say, 'How is it to be so successful?' I'm not successful yet. Richard Bran... AFROJACK The truth is when you have a movie that was as successful as 'Chronicle' was, it's not a... MAX LANDIS My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like ... OLGA FONDA I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a r... J. COLE I did an episode on the TV show 'Awake,' and I thought, 'Wow, that's really hard.... AYELET ZURER I was in a movie called 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' and that was my first leading role in a m... JACOB LATIMORE Whether it's a movie I'm in or not, if there's a good movie, and it's low budget, an... TONI COLLETTE I'd see people being really successful, whether it was my teammates or big-name fighters like Mu... HOLLY HOLM When you're successful, there will be friends, people, VIPs rallying around you. When you're... SURESH RAINA No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's somethin... ROBERT PLANT There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful p... AVA DUVERNAY When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really... ANNIE LENNOX This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting. JAN DE BONT I think television has always been one to replicate when something's successful. I don't thi... 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GOYER The first time I saw 'Sunset Boulevard' I was probably eight or nine years old, and it reall... JENNIFER LYNCH
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HINTON The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the un... S. E. HINTON Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the secon... S. E. HINTON I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight. S. E. HINTON Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my o... S. E. HINTON I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him. S. E. HINTON I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagina... S. E. HINTON How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the r... S. E. HINTON More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma.... S. E. HINTON My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends. S. E. HINTON I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male. S. E. HINTON I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here. S. E. HINTON If you enjoy reading something, read it. S. E. HINTON Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff. S. E. HINTON If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocer... S. E. HINTON My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life. S. E. HINTON Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because i... S. E. HINTON My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist... S. E. HINTON I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it. S. E. HINTON Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. S. E. HINTON I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at t... S. E. HINTON When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two thi... S. E. HINTON 'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback. S. E. HINTON You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-... S. C. GWYNNE This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a... S. C. GWYNNE When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. HARRY S TRUMAN It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be. VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN