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You can tell a lot in shorthand.
People's intolerance, I find puzzling.
I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.
'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.
Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.
I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.
I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.
I love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.
Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.
Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.
The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.
The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.
I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.
My idea of growing old gracefully is probably different to other people's!
A lot of people use the phrase 'underage violence,' which, to me, is meaningless.
I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.
Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.
If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.
I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
Quite honestly, I'm so happy to be Jonathan's wife and my children's mum that anything else is a bonus.
I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?
When it's something you really adore, I think you don't want to be the one who accidentally writes a crap episode.
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit more of a blank slate.
I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.
Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'
I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.
I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!
A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I adapt it for the screen.
After starting as a journalist for newspapers and magazines, I began to write books and had success with a novel and four nonfiction books for young adults.
The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.
Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.
I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.
I was so clear on the fact that I wanted to be a journalist that I asked my parents if I could go to a tutorial college to do my O-levels early, which I did when I was 13.
I think when you really adore something, and you've grown up with it, you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.
There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.
The only moment I become aware of being the only woman in a meeting is when actresses are being discussed. If someone's critical of how a woman looks, they turn to me and apologize.
I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.
All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange, endearing part of our culture. Morbid fascination sums it up.
There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'
You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not frightening because one has not connected with the characters.
It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!