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The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book did, because it wasn't going to read as strongly on screen.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.
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Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.
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Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.
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I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
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I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
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I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
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I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause
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Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.
