Jill McCorkle Quotes

We like movies and books that give us this emotionally moving experience, where you feel like a slightly different person, and you see the world a little different after you finish. It lets you see your own life in a different way, and it actually makes you feel really good.

The Shawshank Redemption' isn't a movie about a black guy and a white guy who become friends - it's a movie about freedom. At the end, the cathartic experience of seeing our own emotions reflected back to us, that's the purpose of storytelling.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

I love writing and directing because it's great therapy. Every project I've done, there's been a personal connection.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I can't play anything until I find something that connects to my life, something I can carry as my secret map or code for the character.

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.

I didn't realize when I first started writing how much it would set me free from certain situations in my life. It's incredible.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

There are few things as powerful as the joy of someone who got a second chance and found their purpose.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

I really don't feel that writing is therapy.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.