I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.

They say crying makes the heart lighter

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

One doesn’t question a miracle.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

There isnt a more important issue in the world than global warming. Even the Cold War and the Bay of Pigs crisis were a notional threat.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

The question remains... who takes care of you, Miss Vale?" "I might ask the same question of you, Lord Dryden.

America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

The crowds at Flushing Meadow are about as impartial as a Nuremberg Rally.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

The atheist barista (who's obsessed with astrology) asked me, "So what's your sign?" I responded, "The sign of the cross." I think she spit in my coffee.

I am used to being on tours with people who are fantastic performers and I respect them and I love their music. But the bottom line is they got the vision for what we are trying to do.

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches

Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.