You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

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.

I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I think the influence of books is neither direct and more predictable. Books themselves are too unruly, and so are readers.

People feel alcohol heals heart (diseases) but in theory, it peels the heart.

I just never gave anything else much thought after music. I just hope that I'm doing what God intended me to do, and that's all.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

I don't feel the cold. It's my British blood!

We become what we pay attention to.

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.