Jane Fallon Quotes

We all have the same problems with family or friends, boyfriends, all that stuff.

Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.

I love the conflict of relationships on 'Justified.'

What I've learnt is never to work with the person you are in a relationship with because sometimes you need a break.

It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do.

Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

We all have competitive relationships with our siblings.

I always notice the dysfunctional dynamic of human relationships because most places where you encounter it, people are trying to pretend it isn't happening.

But I was also a big mouth, I started to develop a troubled relationship with Harry Shorten.

We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.

'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.

The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.

Yes, a family is interesting. You can get a lot of drama in the conflicts there. It's like the sea. It seems calm, but inside there is conflict.

I think it's more fun to grow to love characters who are flawed than it is to present perfect characters. Perfect characters aren't very funny. Certainly my friends are a strange, intense bunch of people, and people's families drive them crazy, but challenging relationships are always more rewarding.

Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics.

I think I deal with my anger toward my relationship or about my relationship or about my friendships or my family - I deal with it on stage in a passive-aggressive way, and that can be very harmful if it gets back to them, which it always does.

He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

Friends are just enemies in reverse.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.