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" I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. "

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" I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. "

" A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. "

" I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing. "

" I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view. "

" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "

" I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. "

" You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation. "

" I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' "

" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "

" I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. "

" I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you. "

" I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way. "

" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "

" I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people. "

" The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill set that lets you go on television shows like 'The View' or 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' "

" Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. "

" I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!' "

" I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. "

" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "

" I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it. "

" I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? "

" There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.'' "

" You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you. "

" We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. "

" I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. "

" Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers. "

" My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. "

" What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic. "

" I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?' "

" I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen. "