Quotes About Author

I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.

Every once in a while I get a fan letter from someone about thinking he or she saw me in an episode of an old western or police series. The writers are probably right.

We have to challenge head-on the way the BNP takes legitimate concerns and manipulates them in the interests of its fascist agenda.

That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I never wanted to be a pundit who chases headlines.

I always have my Bose headphones. I have to have the noise-cancelling headphones.

Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

I have an Internet radio show where people can call in for healing.

France is a very attractive place: the health care system, for example.

It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

The Magic Castle is not a place that people know nationally, but as soon as you move to L.A., you hear people talk about it.

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.

I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts.

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

If I just want to 'start a conversation,' I don't need to run for office. As a matter of fact, it could be argued that many people are more open to hearing you if you're not running for office.

I started hearing people say, 'There's a blog about your hair, and there are all of these Tumblr accounts.' I'm like, 'What's Tumblr?' I'm pretty mystified by it, because I look around, and a lot of people have great hair.

I'm reading 'Ten Storey Love Song' by Richard Milward. I read his first novel, 'Apples,' after hearing a reading of his in the Hague. I really enjoyed it, so I've started this one.

I respect the fans, they're the heart and soul of the football club and their opinion matters, it really does.

I don't cover my scenes. We approach it visually. Sometimes we go out of our way to do awkward blocking so that we can tell whatever the emotional heartbeat is of that scene in the most interesting way possible.

Channel your heartbreak into work, then use that extra money to treat yourself to a new handbag.

I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.