"When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest."

“I hate being forced to do things. I hate people telling me what to do, so I'll do the complete opposite. It's a bit self-destructive sometimes.”

Source : "Sky Ferreira and the dark side of the music biz" by Michael Cragg, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

“Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.”

“I think it's good that I had some experience of the real world before I became successful. You know, having to get up in the morning and going to work in construction.”

Source : "Tom Jones: He's actually quite unusual" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2010.

“I won't be remembered for my writing. I'll be remembered as Scott's mistress.”

“When I say my brother and his wife are heterosexual, that doesn't mean I'm talking about their sex lives. Likewise, when we say someone is gay, we're talking about sexual orientation, not their sexual activity.”

“There is also something deeply lovely about uncertainty: the possibility of optimism.”

Source : "7 Truths Women Have To Learn The Hard Way" by Joan Wickersham, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 7, 2013.

“Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared.”

Source : Matt Dunn (2008). “The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

“You know those days when you get the mean reds?”