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" I only want to write books and movies about women. "

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" I kind of stumbled on the material for 'An Education' and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world. "

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" The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are. "

" When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.' "

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" I've always been able to enjoy aspects of my life. "

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" It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years. "

" Home was extremely normal. But my dad's life was quite exotic, really. When I went away to stay with him, it was a different world. I never wanted to be in that world. I was much happier with my mates at home. "

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" At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times. "

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" I hated teaching Shakespeare. In order for the students to understand what was going on, you had to tell them the story of 'Macbeth' or whatever. Shakespeare is about character and language, and they didn't get any of that. "

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