Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.
Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.
Sometimes when people ask you to do things you think you are above, you need to evaluate why you think you are above it.
Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.
Christ is the only way into Heaven. The world may say otherwise, but what they are really doing is making rules for someone else's house.
'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.
There's no reason to do 'ex and the City' if it's not going to be everything 'Sex and the City' is, which is vibrant emotions, comedy, drama... and also, style.
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
'Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
Erinnern, das heißt, eines Geschehens so ehrlich und rein zu gedenken, daß es zu einem Teil des eigenen Innern wird. Das stellt große Anforderungen an unsere Wahrhaftigkeit."
Hedi Slimane told me I was boyish in his eyes. For him femininity and masculinity are the same thing, the difference is not so interesting, he said.
I see myself as quite feminine. But many people seem to think differently about that; sometimes people mistake me for a man. In Paris I often hear 'bonjour monsieur'.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
