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In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
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I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
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What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.
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She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
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There isn't a plant or a business on earth that couldn't stand a few improvements-and be better for them. Someone is going to think of them. Why not beat the other fellow to it?
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Acting is not glamorous. It's not. Anybody who wants to get into acting for the glamour is in for a hard time.
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The first two chapters of any first draft generally need to be cut.
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The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.
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For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
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Your confidence is the 15th club in your bag. You'd like it to be a thick headed driver. But it sometimes seems like a pretty weak little stick.
