“I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I fo...” — Geraldine Brooks Quote

“I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative.”

“Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.”

“It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affected, that General Motors not go bankrupt.”

“Obviously, cancer has affected my life, mostly everyone in the world in some level.”

“When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.”