Quotes About Author

I am not a part of Bollywood. Nobody cares about me in Bollywood and I have mentally resigned from Bollywood long ago. I am an independent filmmaker.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

I have been hugely honoured to have played for my country and I would never shut the door.

There's never any time for anything that's remotely kinky, and even when I try to send some kinky stuff, it always gets shut down.

The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.

I would enjoy seeing anyone else sing 'Caroline Shut Up.' That would be interesting. I would give that one away, actually, which is funny, even though it's very personal.

Johns will give me a good critique of my work. Before starting my film 'Shutter' I gave the script to Johns for his opinion.

Bisping, he's a piece of work. The guy likes to run his mouth. I look forward to shutting it.

I was never particularly gregarious. I was quite shy, closed in. It's a classic isn't it, your psychiatrist will tell you, that's how I release it, through music.

I went to stage school with a neighbor to build confidence because I was quite shy.

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I'm actually quite shy and reserved.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.

Some people shy around 'The Cobbler.' 'The Cobbler' will always be a very special film to me. I've had a lot of wonderful response from 'The Cobbler.'

I was a very weird child. I was very shy, so in school I would just mimic stand-up sets of Whoopi Goldberg.

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.