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

One of the most ephemeral and important things is atmosphere and tone and it's very hard to put your finger on what creates that.

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 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.

Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption.

To live with a mind full of grudges and jealousy, is to bargain to be constantly punished by negative feelings and emotions.

Someday I would have lovers and write a poem after

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed.

I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted—otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.