Citas de Christopher Bollen

• 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

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Nunca he tenido un mentor. Siempre he querido tener uno. De hecho, estoy muy decepcionado de que nadie me haya tomado bajo su tutela.

  Christopher Bollen

  Wings, Mentor, Wanted

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• La primera película de terror que vi, en primero o segundo de primaria, fue My Bloody Valentine [1981], en la que hay un asesino trastornado con una máscara de minero que acecha un pequeño pueblo carbonero.

  Christopher Bollen

  Valentine, Towns, Coal

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Por mucho que adore a Agatha Christie - y creo que la gente hace esta afirmación sobre los misterios de asesinatos en general - a menudo es un modo muy conservador de narración. Por lo general, es el codicioso, la escalada, el nuevo dinero slimeball que quiere tomar de la aristocracia.

  Christopher Bollen

  Thinking, Climbing, Murder Mysteries

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Christopher Bollen

  Literature, Orphan, Figures

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.

  Christopher Bollen

  Wall, Kids, Murder

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Christopher Bollen

  Run (Ejecutar)

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Mañana, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: 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

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

  Christopher Bollen

  Obsessed, Sixth Grade, Grades

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• I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Teenager, Horror Genre, Horny

  Fuente: 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

  Escapismo

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Christopher Bollen

  School, Way, Graduates

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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

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to be this weird mid-century dream that I feel pulls us as a country, and us as a culture, backward.

  Christopher Bollen

  Dream, Country, Moving

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.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

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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