I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Here we go, ” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you.

If you find a need, reach out to help.

You are new Creation by the blood of Jesus.

You are nothing like my father. And like my father you are nothing.

We don’t need eyes to judge people’s beauty

I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare but then I thought Why should I? He never reads any of mine.

Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.

Sometimes it's important just to allow myself to feel whatever it is I am feeling and to be okay with it.