Film Quotes by Jane Goldman

6 Film quotes by Jane Goldman

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I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.

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A friend of mine, Neil Gaiman, had the film rights to his book 'Stardust' bought by producer Matthew Vaughn and suggested I…

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Normally with film, it's normal for the screenwriter to never be seen again after finishing until the premiere.

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I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far…

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'Stardust' ended up being my first film in 2007.

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I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I…

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Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.

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I love Vivienne Westwood - she designs for womanly shapes.

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“By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of King’s College, Kensington, and from Clara Pater, sister of the English essayist and critic Walter Pater (1839–94). Woolf was very fond of Clara and an exchange between them later became the basis for her short story…

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“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington’s suicide just two months after, in March. Another old friend, Ka Cox, died of a heart attack in 1938. But the death, in 1937, of Woolf ’s nephew Julian, in the Spanish Civil War, was perhaps…

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“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman’s marriage, coincided with Woolf ’s most productive years as a writer.”

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I pretty much always wanted to be a writer.

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“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions…

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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…

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I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?'

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“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies, in the…

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