Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy.
God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.
I do not want the voice of the people shut out.
I can frighten or buy ninety-nine out of every one hundred men.
I don't know much about Hitler. Except that last thing, about the Jews. There has never been a country that put its heel down on the Jews that ever lived afterwards.
They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites. ' And they learned.
Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots. '' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.