I didn't look at it as a transition so much, because I never intended to have a career as a journalist, writing about people who make movies.

I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

What you care about [movie] is whether it's moving you, or whether you're caught up in it.

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

I love playing outsiders, I always do.

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every other nation.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.