Quotes by Jeff Giles - Page 1

'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.
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Underdog
Bottle
Rocket
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Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.
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Nervous
Good Writer Being
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Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
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Oblique
Scott
Unsettling
Writes
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Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.
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Good Taste
Mouths
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My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.
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Father In Law
Montana
Summer
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There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching.
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Realistic
Voices
Ya
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The YA category changes pretty fast. I'm so impressed by what these authors do.
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Impressed
Category
Pretty
Authors
Fast
Ya
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Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.
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Gross
Outlandish
Occasionally
Salaries
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Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?
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Sharon
Sharon Stone
Stone
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Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.
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Collection
Jean
Thompson
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I didn't want to write a pure fantasy novel, though I love those and grew up on J. R. R. Tolkien and Ursula LeGuin.
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Pure
Tolkien
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Any time a young adult book throws a girl and a guy together, the clock starts running on the countdown to the kiss.
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Clock
Young Adult
Throws
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In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.
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Miserable
Onassis
Rich
Stands
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It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.
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Generation X
Bottle
Get A Life
Rocket
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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Gorgeous
Hollow
Multiple
Sleepy
Sumptuous
Painterly
Tim
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Leaving New York and friends is tough, and there are things about it I still really miss. But Montana is a great place to write.
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Leaving
Montana
Great Place
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In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.
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Army
Memories
Collection
Overly
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I'd been wanting to try a YA novel for years because I saw how exciting the genre was and how amazing, hungry, and curious the readers were.
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Curious
Hungry
Ya
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Making a summer movie is like accepting a mission impossible: your enemies are everywhere, and if you fail, the studio's never heard of you.
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Enemies
Mission
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It is amazing how quickly a true talent can announce itself. In the case of Myla Goldberg, it is not even a matter of pages, but of sentences.
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Pages
Sentences
Announce
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When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
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Budgets
Junk
Rigor
Bets
Hedge
Salaries
Sets
Skyrocket
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By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.
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Producers
Sharks
Chase
Circle
Properties
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I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.
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Be Kind
Unexpected
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It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.
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Desperate
Lambs
Silence
Harris
Sequel
Thomas
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'White Teeth' has far too many characters, and its plot is tortured. But Smith has an astonishing intellect. She writes sharp dialogue for every age and race - and she's funny as hell.
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Astonishing
Dialogue
Intellect
Plot
Teeth
Sharp
Smith
Tortured
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Asking the director of 'The Lord of the Rings' to read my novel was exactly as terrifying as you'd think. I came this close to not doing it because I was so embarrassed. But he was so gracious about it.
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Embarrassed
Gracious
Rings
Lord Of The Rings
Terrifying
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I had written many things as a journalist, but I had no idea if I could write something scary or romantic or touching that wasn't me writing about someone else's life story. It was really exciting to try.
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If I Could
Life Story
No Idea
Scary
Life Romantic Me
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The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.
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Wisdom
Chance
Bookstores
Conventional
Conventional Wisdom
Novel
Publishers
Authors
Sell
Lose
Oprah
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Tobias Wolff is a hell of a writer, but you knew that already. His first memoir, 'This Boy's Life,' was a Huck Finn story set in the Eisenhower era - a story so rich and wounding that not even Hollywood could make a bad movie out of it.
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Hollywood
Memoir
Rich
Bad Movie
Eisenhower
Wounding
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In my work at 'Entertainment Weekly,' I had written reviews and news stories about YA books and film franchises and was always moved by how smart and voracious and loyal the readers were. Everything we did got lots of attention and reaction.
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Attention
Entertainment
Film
Moved
News
Reviews
Smart
Stories
Lots
Books
Reaction
Voracious
Readers
Weekly
Ya
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Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
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Copies
Finished
Giddy
Towers
At Least One
Authors
Cats
Dogs
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I know Peter Jackson a tiny-tiny bit from interviewing him about the 'Lord of the Rings' movies over the years. When I was visiting the set of 'The Return of the King,' he let me be an extra so I could see filmmaking from a different perspective. I was a Rohan soldier.
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Different Perspective
Filmmaking
Peter
Return
Rings
Soldier
Visiting
Extra
Interviewing
Jackson
Lord Of The Rings
Peter Jackson
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Owen Wilson is an actor, but think of him as a sort of secret agent. He has an offbeat, indie-movie sensibility. Every so often, however, he infiltrates some big-budget movie he clearly doesn't belong in - 'Anaconda,' 'Armageddon,' 'The Haunting' - and struggles valiantly to stop it from sucking.
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Armageddon
Haunting
Offbeat
Secret Agent
Sensibility
Wilson
Agent
Belong
Struggles
Sucking
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