Creator Breakdown/Quotes: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''Dark is a valid direction to take something, but I think you have to be in a particular place, mentally, to stay there for a while.''|'''[[A Modest Destiny|Sean Howard]]''', |''[http://www.squidi.net/blog/2010/2010.05.php#05.03.10 Ten Things I Learned Writing AMD]''}}

{{quote|''You show me an actor doing a shit movie, I'll show you a guy with a bad divorce.''|'''[[Bill Murray]]''', |[http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/01/read_bill_murrays_hilarious_sp.html speaking at the NBR awards]}}

{{quote|''That's [[Paul McCartney|Paul]]. [[Understatement|Apparently he was under strain at that period.]]''|'''[[John Lennon]]''', |re [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}UCDCkb-trLk "Carry That Weight"]}}

{{quote|''Gen Urobuchi wants to write stories that can warm people's hearts.''

''Those who know about my creative history will probably [[Flat What|furrow their brows]] and think [[Dude, Not Funny|this is a sick joke]]. Honestly, I have trouble believing it myself. For when I start typing out words on the keyboard, the stories my brain comes up with are always full of madness and despair.<br />''

''The truth is, I haven't always been this way. I have often written pieces [[Bittersweet Ending|that didn't have a perfect ending]], but by the last chapter the protagonist would still possess a belief that [[Earn Your Happy Ending|"Although there will be many hardships to come, I still have to hold on"]].<br />''

''[[Creator Breakdown|But ever since I don't know when, I can no longer write works like this]].<br />''

''I have nothing but contempt for the thing men call happiness, and have had to push the characters I poured my heart out to create into the abyss of tragedy.<br />''

''For all things in the world, if they are just left alone and paid no attention, are bound to advance in a negative direction.<br />''

''[[Foreshadowing|No matter what we do,]] [[wikipedia:Heat Death of the Universe|we can't stop the universe from getting colder, either]], and on the same principle. This world is only maintained in existence by a series of logical, common-sense processes; it can never escape the bondage of its physical laws.<br />''

''Therefore, in order to write a perfect ending for a story [[Foreshadowing|you must possess the power to break the chain of cause and effect, invert black and white, and act in complete contradiction to the rules of the universe. Only a heavenly and chaste soul, a soul that resounds with genuine praise for humanity, can save the story]]; to write a story with a happy ending is a double challenge, to the author's body as well as the mind.<br />''

''At some point, Gen Urobuchi lost that power. He still hasn't recovered. The "tragedy syndrome" is still continuing within me. Is this a terminal disease? Should I give up on the pure "warrior of love" that I have longed for? [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Or mount a pallid battle steed and reincarnate into a bearer of the plague]]... could it be that I can only create pieces that give men courage and hope in my next life? (When I wrote this, [[Alternate Character Reading|I accidentally wrote "courage" as "lingering ghosts"]]. I guess that's what I get for using [[wikipedia:Japanese IME|IME]] -- Ah, I just wrote "IME" as "hatred"... is there no way out of this for me?)'' |'''[[Gen Urobuchi]]''', Afterword to Volume 1 of '''''[[Fate/Zero]] {{spoiler|with a lot of foreshadowing about [[Madoka Magica|his next work]]}}}}