Top 63 Quotes & Sayings by Jane Goldman
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English writer Jane Goldman.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.
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 know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me; they're so few and far between.
I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.
Honestly, I think most directors are about, 'Let's do the most fun and effective thing here and figure out how afterwards.'
You can tell a lot in shorthand.
I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.
Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.
The things you encounter in your formative years always stay with you.
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.
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!'
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.
When it's something you really adore, I think you don't want to be the one who accidentally writes a crap episode.
The idea that you could make a living from writing always thrilled me.
I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.
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!
Teenagers come to things fresh and can really teach us an awful lot.
I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.
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 like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'
I've been really lucky not to have a duff experience with a director.
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.
Japanese horror films take the business of being frightening seriously. There is no attempt at postmodernism or humour. They are incredibly melancholy, with a strong emotional core, while remaining absolutely terrifying.
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.
We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way that Ripley in 'Alien' could have been a guy, but the part happened to be played by Sigourney Weaver.
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 really enjoy the company of my kids... I'm not one of those people who goes 'Yeah, my kids are my mates', that's a dreadful kind of mother, but I'm fortunate that there are times that they do want me around, and I feel lucky that they let me into their world.
I came to comic books when I was about 15.
I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.
It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.
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.
'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.
I like it when characters respond to things that are outrageous and movie-like in an authentic way.
If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.
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.
I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.
I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me. It's more of a yearning for that than something that has to necessarily be cerebral or sophisticated. Good storytelling and something that actually frightens you.
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.
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 think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.
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.
I love my work, but my home life is so fulfilling that I don't tend to be driven by work ambitions.
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks nice, which definitely isn't everyone else's.
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!
Quite honestly, I'm so happy to be Jonathan's wife and my children's mum that anything else is a bonus.
I don't think anyone has ever been corrupted by a T-shirt.
If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.
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 love the Empire Awards. It is really different and laid back.
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.
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.
People's intolerance, I find puzzling.
Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.
I really enjoy the challenge of adapting.
I don't tend to be a nitpicker when I'm watching movies, so as long as something is true to the spirit of the original, that's very much what we got for. You try to never do something that the original author wouldn't have done themselves.
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.
A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?
In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: 'It isn't, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful - though of course that is a large reason & so it should be - that I love you: it is your mind & your character - I have never known anyone like you in that - wont you believe me?
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