H. S. Leigh Quotes

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I love being in therapy. It's just constantly fulfilling for me.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

It's very exciting to work with people who inspire you.

Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

I've always done roles that really appealed to me on a gut level and which I found inspiring.

I'd love to have children, and I think marriage is great, I really do.

I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

I don't want to play the same person twice, that's not why I wanted to act.

I hate parties. I don't like big crowded things.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

The concentration of the elite athlete is akin perhaps to the concentration of the writer.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.

I don't think good films have messages.

I do believe we're all adaptable, and you're probably more adaptable than you realize.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

I had spared the stag's life. The power of that life belonged to me as surely as it belonged to the man who had taken it.

Just because you escape one trap, doesn't mean you will escape the next.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

But I’ve also been known to answer to ‘sweetheart’ or ‘handsome.

Don't worry, Mrs. Colder. For the most part, we keep him leashed and gagged. We only let him free when the cute little animal jokes are needed. ~Sherra Callahan (on Kane Tyler)~

My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

In the first place, I'm pretty thorough about whom I choose. I instinctively look for the kind of actor who is going to be trusting. There are all kinds of insecure people out there called actors.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

Ria snorted. “Leo’s pride rarely leaves the plains. What are they supposed to mate? The zebras?

Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.

I need you more than I need freedom.

You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission.

I love you, Anya,” he said. “You are my soul.

Because sometimes, a man could do nothing about where he came from, he could only control where he went

He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.

Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

I am yours," he whispered. "I live to hold you, Risa. I breathe to touch you.

It's a good thing I'm a reasonably patient woman. Otherwise, I might have to kill you.

Hmm, that's not sexual harassment, baby. When I decide to get sexual, trust me, you'll know it. ~ Braden ~