Today, MTV doesn't play videos anymore, but YouTube certainly has become the next MTV. — Christopher Bollen Mtv Copy Share Image
Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history. — Christopher Bollen Age Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian. — Christopher Bollen Cinematographer Copy Share Image
There is a value to moving more slowly through a story. — Christopher Bollen Inspirational Copy Share Image
Going out into the country after living in the city is a loss of control. — Christopher Bollen Cities Copy Share Image
When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I smoke cigarettes when I write, which is disgusting, but it really helps me. — Christopher Bollen Cigarette Copy Share Image
Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen Art Copy Share Image
We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway… — Christopher Bollen Honesty Copy Share Image
Looking back, [R.E.M.]videos, by in large, have always been art films. I'm thinking of "Losing My Religion." That's a landmark piece. — Christopher Bollen Art Copy Share Image
I was never afraid on stage. That's where I was the least afraid. I could just do what I do and I… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most… — Christopher Bollen Book Copy Share Image
There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first… — Christopher Bollen Books Copy Share Image
I'm ultimately not so much of a professor as a progresser. And I'm ready to move away from what I consider to… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Reputation Copy Share Image
I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery… — Christopher Bollen Book Copy Share Image
It's really hard to write about art in general. But it's exceptionally hard to fictionalize art and make work that isn't a… — Christopher Bollen Art Copy Share Image
I like to be alone, I mean, I really love to be alone more than anything else, and I don't really like… — Christopher Bollen Death Copy Share Image
For me, cultivation of my own style really started by looking at people. There are just some really beautiful people in the… — Christopher Bollen Beautiful Copy Share Image
I definitely don't take any of intrusions in my private life personally. You learn how to have a sense of humor pretty… — Christopher Bollen Care Copy Share Image
I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or… — Christopher Bollen Age Copy Share Image
It's always fun to welcome new people into your life. When dating anyone or becoming friends with anyone who has a different… — Christopher Bollen Creative Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are… — Christopher Bollen Being wise Copy Share Image
I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins… — Christopher Bollen Consequence Copy Share Image
You sit at a fashion show in another country and you watch all of these paparazzi swarm around a celebrity, only they're… — Christopher Bollen Celebrity Copy Share Image
There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with… — Christopher Bollen Beautiful Copy Share Image
It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
The death drive is parasitic. It runs off of other drives, leeching off of them. — Christopher Bollen Death Copy Share Image
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