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" I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' "

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" I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. "

" I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes. "

" I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage. "

" I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. "

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" We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. "

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" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "