Quotes About Author

When I was writing the story of 'Omerta' I was not writing it to make a film or something. But when a filmmaker like Hansal Mehta picked up my story and turned it into a film, I thought that now I can consider myself as a legitimate writer.

Gasperini works really well, if Inter picked him up, it is naturally because they had good reasons.

At Sporting I have found the trust and I am at home. I had the chance to come and I immediately picked it up.

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.

Bolton's exactly what the U.N. needs at this point. The president's right on the mark in picking him.

At this point, I can't say what network would be picking it up, but I know that it would be a success.

Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.

Ah, it's too hard to pick a favorite president. It really is. It's like picking your favorite from a box of chocolates - I love all of them.

No one was interested in picking up a midlist series, even though I have a decent fanbase and respectable numbers.

As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.

I'm very picky and I'm in a situation where it's a big crossover.

I'm very picky with what I read. It's a specific genre of science fiction.

One gets a bit picky after having the success of something like 'FlashForward!'

I used to do my own makeup for all my shows because I'm so picky with my face.

The world knows already, they just don't have a picture up there or I'll spend the rest of my life in exile. It's hard to do that when you don't have any money.

There's broadcasters that make me enjoy what I'm seeing because of their energy and how they explain what's happening and paint that picture.

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

I loved 'Gladiator,' and I thought its depiction of gladiatorial combat, although it was an aggrandizing picture, was cleverly and expertly done.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

Whether it's music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship - if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.

And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

My second TV assignment ever was to go to Cambodia to look at the state of the country in the dying days of the Khmer Rouge. I was naive, awkward, and not very good at writing to pictures.

You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.