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If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

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My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American television was reprehensible, so I was raised on the BBC....more

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Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could’ve been good. There’s an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you lov...more

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Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.

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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

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I just thought, ‘Wait a minute, if I’m going to start writing again, I have to go to the quiet place.' And this is the least quiet place I’ve ever bee...more

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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women ...more

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You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

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Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.

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Don’t give people what they want, give them what they need.