“Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.” FirstsFeelingsCertainReadingFeltLevelsMaterialsFirst TimeProvokingDefining Author:Kristen Stewart
“Seems like every other day there's somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, "I can't believe he did that, I can't believe she did that."” BelieveDoeI CanSeemsCrazyNewsNeighbor Author:Jack Black
“Before we snap to judge someone who's done a horrible crime, is it possible that all of us in the worst possible circumstances could be capable of something like that? So it's about not judging people before really considering what the circumstance was and that not all murderers are created equal. We have a tendency in our society to just say murder? Cut and dried. Go away forever. Or maybe you should have the electric chair yourself.” PeopleShouldDoneForeverCuttingWorstCrimeJudgingCircumstancesEqualCapableShould HaveMurderHorribleTendenciesChairsOur SocietyGoing AwayElectricConsideringMurdererSnapsJudging PeopleElectric ChairNot Judging Author:Jack Black
“It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.” PeopleThinkingWantDifferentSleepBoysBusDifferent PeoplesBad BoySleeping Around Author:Malin Akerman
“I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.” WantSeemsMightComedyRocksDramaExcitingNosesOpera Author:Jack Black
“When people use that stream of consciousness, it's kind of just a term they use for anything that looks slightly different on the page.” PeopleLooksKindDifferentUseTermConsciousnessPagesStreamsStream Of Consciousness Author:Zadie Smith
“I'm always interested in the way people speak and move in their environment, in a very particular environment. I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the any novel is a local thing always.” PeopleWayWritingKindMovingSpeakNovelEnvironmentParticularUniversalLocals Author:Zadie Smith
“I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are kind of at the sharp end of capitalism one way or another. Mainly because they buy everything. In a practical sense, women buy most things. They're always comparing - to friends, to famous people, to other people. An obsessive act of comparison.” PeopleWayKindEndsSeemsTheoryCapitalismPracticalsOne WayComparePetComparisonObsessive Author:Zadie Smith
“A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18. It gets harder the older you get, as you make different life choices, as people say in America. A lot of women's friendships begin to founder.” PeopleFeelsDifferentAmericaYoungChoicesEasyHarderVery GoodComplicatedFoundersGood FriendLife ChoicesDifferent LifeVery Good Friends Author:Zadie Smith
“The arena of women's lives is somewhat more intimate. If a woman goes out with an incredibly attractive man and they break up, that woman is not more attractive to men. It's completely irrelevant to them. That's an example of the way women's minds work.” IfsMenWayMindLife IsBreakExampleAttractiveIntimateIrrelevantArenaAttractive Man Author:Zadie Smith