I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that... →
Elena Satine
The movie business is not about the money. Of course, you need money to make the movie. If you have a small budget, adapt yourself. Having $200... →
Marjane Satrapi
I'm a pacifist. I believe there are ways to solve the world's problems. Instead of putting all this money to create arms, I think countries... →
I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But... →
I'm not a very good financing person. I don't even know how much money I have in my bank account. I never have opened one single envelope... →
If it's a good work of adaptation, the book should remain a book and the film should remain a film, and you should not necessarily read the book... →
I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before and he went on to win silver.
Billy Joe Saunders
I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only actualized by... →
George Saunders
Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad?... →
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to... →