I think the War on Terror has succeeded in creating more terror, more terrorists, a less safe America, and a less safe world.
I'd done the method bit before from, like, age 15 to 19. I was a Civil War re-enactor.
You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.
'SNL' is really hard to do when you're single and living alone. And then it's pretty tough when you're married, because you don't see your spouse.
Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.
The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
Seducing him in the tub smelling of vinegar was out of the question. There had to be some boundaries.
... going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.
On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.
What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.
Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking.
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.
I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.
