Quotes About Author

You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

I ended up going to Dartmouth, and I did Marine Officer Candidate School during my junior summer.

I grew up in Colorado and spent my summers in Montana as a ranch hand.

I lived in Burma for a couple of summers in the '90s, working with the democratic resistance that had fled to the jungles.

I spent two summers managing the Midland Angels.

I worked in the summertime with the Bulls, I don't know, two-three years in a row, Vinny Del Negro, he told me I didn't play defense.

In 1992, India launched the India-Asian partnership and by 2005 we were members of the East Asia Summit.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

I think I've been asked just about every question under the sun. I'm just really honored that people are even interested in asking me questions.

I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.

I am Superwoman. I am the author of 15 novels, including one about cancer. I am not, however, someone who 'gets' cancer. I am a sun worshipper who never thought it could happen to me.

The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

The films that are coming out of SXSW are incredible, and they should get the same bids that films at Sundance are getting.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.

When we came out with 'Lazy Sunday,' the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

The whole process of making 'Bloody Sunday' was difficult but extraordinary.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

The responsibility and the blessing in many ways of a Sunday show is being able to step back and give context.