Quotes About Author

I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

My fans are called 'Mayniacs'. They enjoy screaming and chasing me and taking pictures.

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

I am an indifferent cook, but I can make pie.

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

I'm looking to find good stories, not big commercial pieces of work.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

I wrote a number of pieces in the year 1966 that were so bad that, although I'm a great collector of my own pieces, I have never collected them.

Each of my Shakespeare pieces is different to the other, but each espouses a set of philosophies common to all my theatre work.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

When you're going for a big studio comedy, the joke tally better be pretty high, and you better have some big comedy set pieces. That was one of the issues when I was trying to get 'Swingers' made for the first time, which is that there weren't any broad comedy set pieces.

My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.

Let's leave beside them in another pile all the injustices which exist in the northern state.