Quotes About Author

I have immense respect for Christopher Nolan for taking a character called 'Batman' - taking a comic book - and making people believe in him in a real world context.

I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.

As a novelist, you have to realise that the novel and the film have to live separate lives. They're just different, like your kids, even if they look alike.

Hamlet' is a real ensemble piece: you have to realise that he's just one part of the story.

I love the U.K., and I think a lot of people don't realise that I actually went to primary school in England.

I always want people to realise that whatever I do is a quality product. And that's what's really important to me.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

I actually started out as a writer and then converted to illustration because I realised that there was a dearth of good illustrators in genre fiction, at least in Australia at that time.

In the 11 years I've worked in films, I've realised that no one is indispensable, and that has actually been very comforting to know.

I realised filming in my own apartment that it was nice to come home and have some space. It worked for 'The Little Paris Kitchen' but now I've learned a lot about TV; you need space for the camera and you want to be mentally sound after filming.

I realised that what I loved was descriptive writing rather than something with a plot.

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong opinions.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.

Lists are based on realism - on the coldly contemplated finitude of resources.

Kafka's inevitable tropism for the allegorical puts him in marked opposition to the realism that dominated the literary world of the first half of the 20th century.

I actuall have to defend realism in theatre because I think TV does it badly - so corrupted by layers of bureaucrats who want to leave examination or psychology.

The social realism of ' Establishment Blues' or 'Like Janis,' are what I chose to use to express what was happening in the U.S. and what was happening to me personally.

I learned you have to move fast, writing futuristic satire in America: Before you know it, you're a realist!