Quotes About Leigh

Marilyn Monroe and Vivienne Leigh are real icons of mine. In terms of visual culture, they are both so iconic. There weren't any paparazzi shots of them falling out of taxis, so they will always look so incredible.

My favorite perfumes are Bois Farine and Chanel Coromandel.

Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

Some of my favorite movies are Hollywood movies. Hollywood is part of the cinematic spectrum. I nurture a healthy love-hate relationship with Hollywood.

Maybe I'm a product of my era, but I just enjoy the practical effects of 'The Thing' more than CGI aliens.

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.

Only Jonas would have his claws manicured and honed to dangerous points.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

I always want to fulfill genre expectations and think that should be the bedrock of any film - then you can layer in thematics.

There's something wrong with the baby. I need you here, but not if he isn't out of commission. Go cut his head off or something." "What?" Valerie asked with disbelief. "Who do you think I am? The Queen of Hearts?" "No, if you were you'd already have cut his head off," Leigh snapped and then groaned in agony.

Playing the Mammy of Miss Leigh was just about the biggest thrill I've ever had.

The British writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, an astute observer of Greece who spent most of his life there, called it the "Helleno-Romaic" dilemma, pitting the archetypal categories of Hellenes and Romioi against each other.

James Wan is somebody who doesn't have any problem coming in and directing somebody else's script, he'll be the director for hire and he has his own style and he loves that.

When people write about secret societies, there is a desire to demystify them. I wanted to hyper-mystify them.

who had become the monk, or the one who had earned the title of The Bloodlust Warrior of Hastings. The man she had vowed

I love the standard fantasy setting of Medieval England and Medieval Europe, but I wanted to go somewhere different.

I will not be cleansed of knowledge. Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it. And

And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd,And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.

The chocolate parlor was the only business establishment in this part of Evertrue, nestled in the basement of a house in the shadow of Leigh where it could draw students, scholars and the would-be cognoscenti of the city.

There's the Oxford comma, but I like the Shatner comma. It's when you pepper them in, so, you know where, to add, dramatic pauses.

south of the Danube, by offering a spoonful of sherbet