While it's really hard to do at the same time I'm escaping my body which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed and debated intensely.

Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

The pressures are intense because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

With a lot of films people are sitting on the outside looking in but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

My experience with both my parents is that grief has a lot of down sad things but I was also really emotionally raw in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely my relationships were hotter and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

When a novel has 200 000 words then it is possible for the reader to experience 200 000 delights and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again perhaps more intensely.

For me I'd rather have an intense experience than not.

The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person yes but an intense condensation of his experience not simply a realistic series of episodes.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense a fraud a lie and the workers want no lying.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.