Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that theyre constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. – Keira Knightley
Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion
