I think I always wanna write comedy because that’s what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that’s what I want to reproduce. Owen King Read Quote
I like ‘Reanimator,’ and I like ‘Evil Dead 2.’ But I really like the Corman movies from the late ’60s and early ’70s, and my favorite is ‘The Mask of Red Death’ with Vincent Price because – spoiler alert – but at the end of the movie, Vincent Price, he’s the evil prince, and to kill him, his court just, like, dances at him. Owen King Read Quote
One corollary of the wretchedness of the second trilogy of ‘Star Wars’ films has been the final, demented sanctification of the first trilogy of films. Owen King Read Quote
I didn’t want to write a book as Stephen King’s son, because all I did was get born, and that’s not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn’t be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing. Owen King Read Quote
I went to public schools in Bangor, Maine, and had as normal a childhood as you could imagine someone could, living in an enormous red house and being the son of a millionaire best-selling writer. I mean, I actually had a strangely normal childhood despite all that. Owen King Read Quote
Although it’s depressing to admit this, more than a handful of post-‘Donnie Brasco’ Al Pacino roles would have been better served by Steve Buscemi. Owen King Read Quote
Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings. Owen King Read Quote
The stock market is for people who live in Manhattan and summer in the Hamptons, for people who can afford fancy cars – a Mercedes, say. Owen King Read Quote
When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called ‘the writing game’ with our father. My brother and I would play it – where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed. Owen King Read Quote
