Eileen Wilks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
-
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
-
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
-
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
-
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
-
Fashion breaks my heart.
-
You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
-
When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
-
Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
-
I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
-
Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
-
If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
-
All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
-
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
-
I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.
-
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
-
I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
-
You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
-
When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.
-
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
-
I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure.
-
My life would be better without Gristedes.
-
Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or.
