E.L. James Quotes

This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I learned a lot of good things in my school. I've audited a lot of other schools, and I guess after a while I got a little tired of the acting school atmosphere.

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.

Showing the addiction and unusual sexual practices are ways of just outlining a much bigger character trait.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another.

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with these Shia militias running amok in these areas.

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about it. They find other ways to work it out.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

Take thy self-denials gaily and cheerfully, and let the sunshine of thy gladness fall on dark things and bright alike, like the sunshine of the Almighty.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

I'm a writer. I never expected to be recognised on the street. I never expected to get that kind of coverage, good or bad. I never expected to sell as many books as I have.

I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

I think men who can cry are strong men

Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

It's been great getting better with you.

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.