Quotes About Author

If people don't like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

Amongst Indian celebrities, Shah Rukh is a great one to interview. He's a brilliant T.V. anchor, a people person, and enjoys talking.

People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

I've had a couple of people come up to me after screenings and say they kind of sympathized with the character. I always get a kick out of it when people say that. It means I did something maybe a little bit to the credit of the character.

I am reading the biography of Pep Guardiola. I find it really interesting.

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

I always thought it'd be fun to write something, but it never was an ambition of mine, per se.

My interests are not really with television, per se.

Stars was really good training. You know, we would come in at noon, and, you know, we would learn at that time what we were going to cook that evening. And, you know, there wasn't a set menu per se.

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

I never was a big believer that you can teach writing per se.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Those who use the term 'alt-left' consistently point to violence from the left, often by anti-fascists - both perceived and real.

The matinee audiences are different because they're mostly kids, a great percentage kids. So they respond to everything differently, but I understand what they do respond to.

I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.

A high percentage of each of my books has been written in Des Moines.

There's this perception that I've got this huge collection of old cars. I don't.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.

I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.