Kerri Green Quotes

I'm just first of all looking for a part that's well written and speaks to me.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I want to be a part of films that elate me and resonate with me.

When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

My hope is for a literature that raises the language above the ordinary, makes words both functional and emotional, and to resonate at the frequency of the human spirit - the skill and insight of the writer lifting the parochial novel above the level of regional concern. Making it personal, national, and universal.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

I love doing movies that touch people's lives.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

I just want to make art that connects with people and moves them on an emotional level. Any time I can put out music and place a story behind it and have people watch it and go, 'Wow, I was affected by that,' to me, feels like I've done my job.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work with, you want a director who's passionate and believes in the work that he's doing.

I never sit down to write anything personal unless I know the subject is going to go beyond my own experience and address something larger and more universal.

I don't know if a novelist ever fully detaches him- or herself from what they wrote and the way they wrote it. I can watch 'Presumed Innocent' again and again, and I will always be bothered by the same things that will never bother anybody else.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that.

I'd work with Danny Boyle every day of the week. No matter what he was doing I would do that.