“Be yourself. Don’t pretend that you know something you don’t.”

Speak about the things you really care about.

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That’s why it’s not so easy to adapt him.

People expect a nice period piece, but that’s not always the case. There’s a deep human mystery in his work.

The internet creates chaos and a dangerous kind of piracy but makes the viewer much more active and gives the voice to minority players.

Don’t create the appearance of fake authority.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

Being honest doesn’t mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.

Being raised in a developing country opened my eyes to so much I cannot tolerate. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it’s not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

I was never a worker. And that’s not even being arrogant. I was just never a worker.

The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many.