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Having worked on 'The Hour,' I now feel like I spend my whole time interrogating history. ”
I still always think the greatest moment for me, as a writer, is when I press that button and send the first draft of the script. ”
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse. ”
I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car. ”
I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set. ”
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18. ”
When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world. ”
Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us. ”
In the development business doing something for both women and the environment is the equivalent of holding a royal flush in poker. ”
The poverty line in the U.S., for example, has nothing to do with the poverty line in India. It is a relative poverty line. It is reset from time to time but it is related to U.S. median income, so if I set that to be the absolute poverty line everyone in India would essentially be poor. ”