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I Don't Hold With The Notion That Only Bad Books Make Good Movies.

I'm Interested In Stories Which Insist On A Dog Fails-to-eat-dog Kind Of World. I Hate Misanthropy, Want To Believe That There's A Possibility That We Might All Be Redeemed, That Hope Deferred Makes The Soul Sick, That Our Humanity Is Fragile, Funny, Common, Crazy, Full Of The Longing For Love, The Failure Of Love.

The Imaginative Leap For Me Of Writing For Women Is No More Difficult Than The One Of Writing For Men. I've Always Wanted To Have Women Well Represented In The Work That I've Done Because I've Always Been Around Them And Around The Way They Look At The World.

Being A Writer-director Can Sometimes Make You Incredibly Blinkered.

No Studio In Hollywood Wanted 'cold Mountain.' None. No One Wanted 'ripley,' No One Wanted 'the English Patient.' That Tells You There Isn't Really An Appetite For Ambitious Movie-making Out There.