I have no problem going on record with this and probably have gone on record with this before, there aren't that many people who I respect. There just aren't.
“One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.”
“Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.”