I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
Initial work is on period research where the historical markers are absolutely non-negotiable. Once that is established, a writer can take creative liberties in terms of chronology to suit the story.
No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves.
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.
I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
Why did I not stop to have children? I suppose because the opportunity didn't present itself. Yes, many women feel they are not complete without having children, but I have different creative outlets.
All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
No more roundabout discussions of what makes a good man. Be one!
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!
A real man does not beg forgiveness but earn it.
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.
