People that keep stiff upper lips find that it's hard to smile.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.