“You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbr...” — Kate Thompson Quote

You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.

I am political. But not politically active. I'm not my dad. I'll never write polemic, as he did.

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you're working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there's just nothing there.

Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.

If a hit song comes on in a theater, the mass audience get so excited they throw money, just out of excitement.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.