Christopher Bollen Quotes

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• It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.

  Christopher Bollen

  America, Quality, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

  Christopher Bollen

  People, Fence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I had the amplification and the lights.

  Christopher Bollen

  Light, Amplification, Stage

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've never had a mentor. I've always wanted one. I'm actually really disappointed that nobody took my under their wing.

  Christopher Bollen

  Wings, Mentor, Wanted

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.

  Christopher Bollen

  Art, Done, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your father. America, and particularly New York, runs on the idea that history doesn't matter. There is no history. There is only the never-ending present. You don't even have your family because you moved here to get away from them, so even that idea of personal history has been cut at the knees.

  Christopher Bollen

  Running, Father, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

  Christopher Bollen

  Valentine, Towns, Coal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Games, Creating, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

  Christopher Bollen

  Escapism

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.

  Christopher Bollen

  Morning, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Helping, Cigarette

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Interesting, Shining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

  Christopher Bollen

  Artist, Generations, Lost

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

  Christopher Bollen

  School, Way, Graduates

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You sit at a fashion show in another country and you watch all of these paparazzi swarm around a celebrity, only they're a local celebrity, maybe a soap opera star, so you don't have any idea who they are, you just know they're famous to a bunch of stunned Italians. It's weird, because when you can't identify who a celebrity is, they can just look like overslicked stand-ins. That might sound awful, but what I mean is, when you think about most actresses, even in Hollywood, they really aren't that fascinating or glamorous in their own right once you strip away the flashbulbs.

  Christopher Bollen

  Country, Fashion, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

  Christopher Bollen

  School, Artist, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

  Christopher Bollen

  Literature, Orphan, Figures

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Both my parents were big readers. My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma.

  Christopher Bollen

  Parent, Bigs, Reader

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Wine, Opinion

  Source: www.salon.com

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• We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

  Christopher Bollen

  Honesty, Television, Influence

  "The Brilliant Complications of Heidi Julavits". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Someone asked me when it was that I felt confident enough in my writing that I could rely on it as a career. The truth is, I never have. I'm always on the hunt for second, third, or fourth careers. Private detective and cinematographer were previous career choices, but now that I'm older I think I'd be a good portrait painter, rug merchant, or florist.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Thinking, Choices

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I really believe there is something in the nature of a democracy that naturally leads people to distrust the government, to assume because a democracy is built by people just like themselves that there must be secret plots and cover-ups and wizards behind the scenes running the machine.

  Christopher Bollen

  Running, Believe, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them.

  Christopher Bollen

  Running

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's something about fear and aesthetic that go hand in hand.

  Christopher Bollen

  Hands, Aesthetic, Hand In Hand

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

  Christopher Bollen

  Veterinarian, Wanted, Cinematographers

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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