David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Maybe if she saw Jag again... maybe that would wake her up. But if she sees him and remembers, I'm nobody. In more than ways than one.

When I watch the Olympics I become such an emotional wreck. I've always loved the Olympics, be it the summer or the winter Olympics.

You can love me or you can hate me but you can't define me.

At least tell me you won? And that the scratches and dings were totally worth it." "Of course. They're always worth it," he says with a hidden meaning that only the two of us could ever understand.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

You have to know the story that you're telling, and you have to know the tone in which the story is being told.

The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.