Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.
We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.
If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.
I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.
[On her and husband Michael Dorris:] We both have title collections. I think a title is like a magnet. It begins to draw these scraps of experience or conversation or memory to it. Eventually, it collects a book.
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.