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The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

When you aren't doing too many films, people find other things to write about you.

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with me.

I don't want to be doing movies that I don't want to do. They take so much out of you.

If people are constantly reading about you, and you're overexposed, they've got no reason to go see your movies. Also, it's not pleasant or nice to have your privacy invaded.

I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.