Kris Haamer

“The Fellowship heralded a new kind of film-making. Its script had four credited writers and about seven non-credited ones. Peter Jackson ran seven film units, nine music units and a production crew of 2,400.”
― John Howkins, The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas

“We all learn, whether consciously or not, that the default interpretation of behavior reflects a character's state of mind, and every fictional story that we read reinforces our tendency to make that kind of interpretation first.”
― Lisa Zunshine, Theory of Mind and the Novel

“Britain’s fashion industry employs more people and makes more money than do its car or steel industries.”
― John Howkins, The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas

“In September 2001, after an unnecessary international war with Ethiopia, half the Eritrean cabinet wrote to the president, Isaias Afwerki, asking him to think again about his autocratic style of government. He thought about it and imprisoned them all.”
― Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It