I was always obsessed with the ‘Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai,’ this weird little cult movie. There was this promised sequel before the end credits – ‘Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League’ – and I knew instinctively they were never going to make that movie, because the first one had made, like, $8 at the box office. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I don’t know if the ’80s were unique, but we certainly got original, groundbreaking stuff at the time with movies like ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Star Wars’ – movies that became classics. Ernest Cline Read Quote
For the whole history of cinema, we’ve been experiencing movies and television through a two-dimensional, letterboxed window. But once you can start programming entertainment for all the different senses, it becomes a wholly different medium. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I have to avoid things like ‘World of Warcraft’ or ‘Minecraft’, otherwise I’d never get any work done. Ernest Cline Read Quote
Before I became a full-time writer, I worked in tech support in those giant cubicle farms you see. I was surrounded by people who played video games all the time – sometimes actually in the call centers, playing online multiplayer games. I saw friends of mine who began to feel that going online was more compelling to them than real life. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I’ve never really collected anything other than old Atari cartridges. I only had, like, 12 Atari games as a kid, so at some point in my 20s I decided I was going to own all of them. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem. Ernest Cline Read Quote
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about. Ernest Cline Read Quote
