No one can forecast the economy with certainty.
Characters for me are born on page one and they die on page 100.
I realized that work doesnt beget work. Good work begets work. So I got a lot more patient and stopped worrying about working all the time.
Fame is one of the potential hazards of this job, but I really just want to make movies. I want to be respected, sure. Who doesnt? But famous-famous? I just dont care about it. And if you genuinely dont give a damn about that stuff, you really are free.
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
I guess I just would never be so arrogant as to think that anybody would even recognize me. I didn't even think about it.
Im really bad at tests of any kind, so Im bad at auditions. I consider myself educated most of the time, but when Im under the gun, I just fail.
Clouds are like boogers hanging on the nostrils of the moon.
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure!
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.