Quotes About Author

There was a movie that was made about 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And I never watched it on purpose because I didn't want to... I just didn't want to know.

When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

I'm politically interested, but I have no particular talent as a political beast, stepping out and running for office.

I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

Jean-Marc Vallee is a talent, and working with Amy Adams was incredible.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Oh, and Scott, get Mark to play me. He's the most talented one anyway.

One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

Barack Obama is clearly a smart guy, talented.

'Looper' was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

I think Selena Gomez is extremely talented.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.

Nicola Barker is both prodigiously talented and admirably fearless. I have loved her books. But for some time, I had little or no idea what the point of the story of Sri Ramakrishna was. In fact, he was one of the outstanding men of 19th-century India.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart. Part of what got me excited about the Aquaman character is his re-envisioning of Aquaman, the character, with 'The New 52.'

The Knicks, they're a very talented team.

Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast.

First, hugely popular and talented romance/dark fantasy author Meljean Brook gives a really deep, wonderful story. She's clearly spent so much time thinking about the world of Sonja and her story in particular, it could easily have been a novel of its own.

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

James Salter has talents on the page we novelists would sell souls to the devil for.

Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'