Words matter. These are the best Jeff Giles Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.
My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.
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.
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.
Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can’t get something for nothing?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are all kinds of voices in YA, and they are realistic and unflinching.
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.
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.
I’m definitely interested in two questions: ‘Is anybody ever really irredeemable?’ and ‘How much are we all prepared to do for each other?’
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.
Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.
The YA category changes pretty fast. I’m so impressed by what these authors do.
Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.
