The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.
In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down.
You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.
Men, in fact, are excited and looking forward to settling down and having families and being true partners with women in relationships that are full of excitement, unpredictability, adventure, and loyalty.
It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.
Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
In Australia, I can just say to my mom, 'I'm going down the street.' And I can walk around pretty much all the places I know.
When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and there was no discussion or option or negotiation. Whatever my mom said, that's what went down.
For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.
Dean Vernon Wormer: The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.
Pilla: Colonel, they're shooting at us! Colonel, they're shooting at us! McKnight: Well shoot back!
Eversmann: Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
McKnight: [while the convoy is under heavy fire going through a raided street] Motherfuckers! Motherfuckers!
Jason Bourne: You move, you die. Conklin: Bourne. Jason Bourne: Gun down.
Cookie Fleck: Did somebody put something down here so I would trip?
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
The press has always written that I am a recluse and a mysterious woman, but I am more down-to-earth than they think.
