And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.
I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who allow that collaboration, I can't see why I would ever want to direct.
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one.
If you're growing up in times of peace and live in a country where there's plenty of food and good healthcare, you grow up without any relationship with death.
I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.
America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same. . . and being afraid is not an excuse.