After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.


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GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hai...
GILLIAN FLYNN
There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get ...
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am n...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I'd say I've gone to grad school for comedy being on 'Community.'
GILLIAN JACOBS
I had some years of definite frustration. Auditioning and not working as much as I would have liked ...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do pe...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inf...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or d...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I have a lot of good stories for talk shows about the conditions in which I worked.
GILLIAN JACOBS
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance t...
GILLIAN CROSS
'Fresh Air' I listen to, like, every day.
GILLIAN JACOBS
Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you per...
GILLIAN FLYNN
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
GILLIAN JACOBS
My inners are not organs. They're actually mechanics, so I have a hole in my back, wind me up li...
GILLIAN JACOBS
Sometimes movies that I'm in that I have a leading role don't necessarily get the biggest re...
GILLIAN JACOBS
...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and thin...
GILLIAN FLYNN
People want to believe they know other people. Parents want to believe they know their kids. Wives w...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, a...
GILLIAN FLYNN
He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the fe...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Be the peace you would like to see in the world.
GILLIAN DUCE
I think that there are a lot of really beautiful Christmas carols, and then sometimes there are horr...
GILLIAN JACOBS
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the wor...
GILLIAN FLYNN
The ones who are not soul-mated – the ones who have settled – are even more dismissive of my sin...
GILLIAN FLYNN
His name is synonymous with Southern California, making him a perfect fit to get the state of Califo...
GILLIAN ZUCKER
We wanted them to shoot jumpers and they made them. They were shooting 3s lights out.
MIKE GILLIAN
I think maybe my mom thought that Katharine Hepburn would be a good role model of, like, a strong, s...
GILLIAN JACOBS
I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance p...
GILLIAN JACOBS
'Blue Monday' is a dance track with a hint of melancholy.
GILLIAN GILBERT
I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter....
GILLIAN FLYNN
Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it. I drank more and continued my mantra. 'S...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Well, if you can't have what you want, you could try to want what you have.
GILLIAN SHIELDS
The most profound one is you cannot make a report without a foundation. You cannot make an unjustifi...
GILLIAN BUTLER
She was scared. I pictured the police knocking, and here I was with a girl I'd been fucking the morn...
GILLIAN FLYNN
Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.
GILLIAN FLYNN
When happiness pours out of your heart, good pours out into the world.
GILLIAN DUCE
When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel ...
GILLIAN GILBERT
The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you.
GILLIAN FLYNN
Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.
GILLIAN FLYNN
I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
GILLIAN JACOBS
I could see the cat was definitely on the steps. Still on the steps, 20 minutes after Carl's call. T...
GILLIAN FLYNN
There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
GILLIAN FLYNN
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people....
GILLIAN FLYNN
Yes, I am finally a match for Amy. The other morning I woke up next to her, and I studied the back o...
GILLIAN FLYNN
I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITE...
GILLIAN FLYNN
A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.
GILLIAN FLYNN
There was nothing I wanted to do more than be unconscious again, wrapped in black, gone away. I was ...
GILLIAN FLYNN
We're kind of naive about that. We don't care about anybody else. We just try to do what we can do.
GILLIAN KIEFT
Light your life with purpose and all shadows will disappear.
GILLIAN DUCE
For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.
GILLIAN FLYNN