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" When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book. "

Michael Connelly

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Character

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Michael Connelly

Love

Writer

" There are nineteen Harry Bosch books, and someone told me if you add up the descriptions of Harry from all of them, it would come to less than three pages. He's very elliptically described over the two decades during which the novels occur. I did that by intention. "

Michael Connelly

Two

Intention

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" In writing on the page, you can be a bit elliptical, but on TV, you can't dance around stuff. You either show it, or you don't. "

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