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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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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When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.
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Independent horror movies have really stepped up the game, and hopefully mainstream Hollywood will follow suit.
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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
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Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.
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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.
