Quotes from Jeff Giles

My father-in-law lives in Montana, and we would come here every summer.

Independent booksellers tend to have good taste and big mouths.

'Bottle Rocket' is an underdog.

I like beautiful writing, pain, unexpected humor, and the message that, at the last second, people are going to be kind to each other. It almost doesn't matter what the genre is.

In the annals of the rich and miserable, Christina Onassis stands out, if only because she was so rich and so miserable.

Because I'm a writer, I'm really good at being nervous.

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

Some actors occasionally waive their outlandish salaries and take a cut of the gross instead.

In its more listless moments, 'Pharaoh's Army' seems a ramshackle collection of memories not overly concerned with telling a larger story.