Margaret Thatcher on movies

Being a leader is like being a lady, if you have to go around telling people you are one, you aren’t.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.

Sundance is weird. The movies are weird. You actually have to think about them when you watch them.

Britney Spearsborn 1981After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers

I wrote a novel this year called Shop Girl, and several producers came to me and wanted to turn it into a movie. And I said, “If you think you’re going to take this book and change it around, and Hollywoodize it and change the ending…that’s going to cost you.”

Steve Martinborn 1945

You know what your problem is? It’s that you haven’t seen enough movies⁠—all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.

Steve Martinborn 1945