39 Quotes by Luke Davies

She told herself that life is short. This didn’t mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.

If any signs were obvious, I think I must have buried them. Because when you think you are in love, you don’t want to know about the things that could end it.

What is love, in the beginning, if not this mapping out, this settling into the other’s undulations?

I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.

Without Deborah Harry, there's no Madonna; there's no Lady Gaga and beyond. There was something that she did that was very new and powerful in pop, and she was responsible for a change in the way the world acted.

That's why actors are so great and why they earn so much money. They take away the anxious necessity to find the right words.

I liked school. I was happy enough there, I think.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

Being the writer is merely control freak level two. You've got to get to control freak level one.