Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

You can talk all day long, but if you don't do something, it's a waste.

My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.

The only way you really see change is by helping to create it.

I'm not in the business of making us look clean, but I don't want us to look like monsters either. I think there is a little bit of hero and villain in all of us.

I never like to do something that it feels like I've done before.

I sort of knew very early on that I wanted to be a writer. Even in high school, I was a big movie buff, very much into TV shows, and would critique them.

I always want to challenge myself as a writer. I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

The flow of the anointing oil provokes intense worship

There are no Asian movie stars

I notoriously get the hiccups. When I get the hiccups, I get it numerous times in one day.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually.

Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.