A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true.

I thought one way to try to hold on to the power was to write the script myself. That way, I could say to filmmakers, "I'm not asking you to hire me unseen. I'm just saying, 'Here's my script. Can we work together?'" So that worked out well.

With a time-based medium like theater or film, you can't have the audience getting restless in their seats. They're stuck there on their bums; you have to pay enormous attention to pace and you can't lose your way.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

The way to my heart is through Belgian milk chocolate.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.