Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

That's one of the things I find really bad, is when people not only do injuries to others, but then lie about the others to justify it. It's not bad enough just being bad to someone, but then lying about it.

I think it's helpful to aspire to make films if you feel that other people are not doing what you want to do.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.

I'm for people clinging. I'm pro-clinging.

There's a big difference between having relatives who have money and actually having it yourself. Just because you have a cousin who has a lot of money doesn't mean he shares it with you. Or that you'd ask him for a loan.