We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
I get grumpy about the innate conservatism of our tastes; I love bold theatre, and I get annoyed when a heritage piece is really successful.
I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!
The worst thing you can do as a performer is to judge your character in any way, positively or negatively.
Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.
I think if I was ever really going to be more serious about writing I'd have to try and find some way to do it with other people. I do find the silence kind of eerie.
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.
The media establishment senses that the boats are coming and it has taken it upon itself to stand on those beaches and do everything it can to shoot the soldiers on the boats. They know the beaches will be taken.
If you look around at America, that's one of its biggest problems is you have corporations that can never be pleased at a profit.
The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.