Ethan Canin Quotes
Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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People talk about Hollywood as a myth, but in reality, when you make Icelandic movies and you want to get them distributed in the U.S., you're not really working with Hollywood. The movies I've been making, the first one I made, I made it with Working Title, but it was financed through Universal, so it became a Hollywood production.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.
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I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for whoever's on the door, and they'd let me in. I used to think I was Nat King Cole back in the day, you know. So I'd sing something like, 'Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you,' and they'd let me in.
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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I do read a lot. I read more than I watch movies.
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Brad Pitt has something about him to where he's played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he's done, I want to be him.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track - the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
