I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.
Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.
I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
I spent much of my life hiding.
I got frustrated with films like "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact," where the only answer to deal with a Near-Earth Object is basically Bruce Willis with a big drill.