What I did have was an incredible amount of belief in myself.

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.

Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

I was really surprised when I started working and realized that you're actually on your own, a lot of the time. It makes you really responsible, as an actor.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.

Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our

There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

Well Stephanie, I'd like to thank you for giving me such a kind Christmas gift, but unfortunately I didn't get you any gifts. But then again, what can you get for the girl whose had everyone?

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

There's no deodorant for desperation.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom.

What you have to assess is whether you have the will to fight.