I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages. . . I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time. . . and last night, all those people were at my show.
When a single mom goes out on a date with somebody new. It always winds up feeling more like a job interview.