The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.

I think I want the best for my country. I can make work that makes us examine some truths about ourselves - that would be more of a contribution. That's how I see it.

If Cargo is a catalyst to spark policy, that would be great. The more we're able to use it as an educational tool, the more it's a building block in youths' minds and peoples' minds to enact policy.

I think that people always get what they deserve - whether you're around to see it or not.

When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...

[Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’ list.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Handel was a man of the world but Bach was a world of a man.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.

If a person thinks he can be happy without making those around him happy, he's crazy.

I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not.

Let me see what I wrote so I know what I think