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![“[The Girl in the Spider's Web] can't be anything other than a sequel, but a couple of books have been skipped, so it is different, in that sense. It's really taking a very strong central character and thinking, how do you execute this? It's quite different.” quote by Steven Knight](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/b43/steven-knight-2205_book_the-girl-in-the-spider-s-web-can-t-be-an_1257130.jpg)
![“The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and…” quote by Clint Eastwood](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a6b/clint-eastwood-513_book_the-story-for-the-western-genre-is-every_2561060.jpg)
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