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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
Tim Burton’s ‘Sleepy Hollow’ has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations. Jeff Giles Read Quote
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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
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. Jeff Giles Read Quote
