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Hampton Fancher

(1938) Actor

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Hampton Fancher is an actor.

Quick Facts About Hampton Fancher

Born: July 18, 1938
Profession: Actor

About Hampton Fancher

[Wikidata] American actor and director... | [Wikipedia] Hampton Lansden Fancher is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who co-wrote the 1982 neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, and its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049. His 1999 directorial debut, The Minus Man, wo

Quotes by Hampton Fancher

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it,…

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Great writers

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I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they…

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Clue

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I don't mean to talk so much about screenplay writing. Who wants to talk about screenplay writing? I've taught it and I…

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Mean

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I guess the freedom - poetic freedom - because the poetic part of short story form is an attempt to say something…

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Absurdity

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Life is sinister. I don't know if I am representing life exactly, but sinister, I think it has to do with dreams.…

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Awake

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Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's…

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Architecture

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I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

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Sometimes

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Hollywood's always saying, "Yesterday!" and scares you to death with all that deadline and yelling and impatience stuff.

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Deadline

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I went to LA because my parents were there and somebody asked me if I wanted to be in a movie. It…

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Easy

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