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It hit me: I have to answer this guy, Bahrani says.
I threw that outline away.
Inevitably, our president was an influence, too.
Theres one cookie I need after two hours to have energy to go two more hours, Bahrani says.
Its the powdered one with the pistachio inside.
So maybe its just his entire worldview thats gloomy.
My parents are from Iran, he says by way of explanation.
Its a tragic culture.
Maybe too much so.
No, he says.
We dont need a Taliban regime or a Hitler regime.
We are asking for these things on our own.
I find this much more frightening.
Or, as one character in the novel puts it: The firemen are rarely necessary.
We ask not to have privacy.
We ask to give all our information away.
We ask to read only the headlines.
We ask to respond with just a like, and thats our protest …
Were the happiness boys, you and I, Beatty says to Montag [in the book].
Theyre burning stuff to keep people happy.
When they first met, he told me about all the interviews Ive ever done.
I was like,Thats cool.
And a little weird.
Jordan said working with pyrotechnics was fun and likens his flamethrower to a very dangerous Super Soaker.
It made me want to believe in something that wholeheartedly.
Could I ever be so mentally tough to do something like that?
Ramin has a lot of trust in me, Shannon says.
Other books had personal significance to Bahrani, like Persian poetry books by Hafez and Ferdowsi.
There should be a directors cut, he says, where its all burning books.
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