“Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings”
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“I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.”
“Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.”
“I don't think of literature as an end in itself. It's just a way of communicating something.”
“Some people connect with a story and may find between the lines something that might be useful to him or her, but that's not the intention of the author, I think. At least not mine.”
“It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.”
“Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don’t think that’s a good trend for the theater at all.”
“I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?”
“I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.”
“I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.”
“Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.”
“If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.”
“I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.”
“I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color of your skin or the politics that you had or the place that you come from, but from a point of view of an understanding of human nature, an understanding of history, and an understanding of what motivates people.”
“I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself."”
“There have been times in my life when I have felt I was lonely, but I don't think you want to live your life in order to mitigate against loneliness.”
“I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.”
“I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.”
“I think it turned out to be a pretty good movie [42]. I wouldn't lie to you.”
“Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life.”