Quotes About Author

When you're allowing the Executive Branch to deprive somebody of a constitutional liberty without any process, that is something that affects all Americans because that's a precedent that can be used.

Twitter is half me trying to live in the world and half me processing and sharing the world. I share a lot, and some of that is to keep me honest.

Luckily, my only responsibility for 'Still Processing' is to show up and talk.

To me, the make-up of a modern defenseman, the No. 1 thing is the processing skills.

If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.

Procrastination: as endemic to and dreaded by writers as writers' block.

I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.

My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

I pitched my last children's show presentation in the mid 1980's. The era of locally produced children's shows was over and the networks were not and are not interested in children's television.

I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

I'm really obsessed with this show right now called 'Power,' produced by 50 Cent.

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

I am an internationally produced playwright.

I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.

My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.

Our first short was 'Angry Boy,' which was produced through the Fox Movie Channel.

I actually did work and produced two short dissertations, one on Faulkner and one on the film criticism of the stream-of-consciousness novelist Dorothy Richardson.

I don't feel an obligation to go by the rankings - we all know how those rankings are produced anyway. I want to go out there and fight the money fight.

I love doing films, action films, anything I can get into that is produced at a high level, really use my skills.

I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.

On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.